Elkin is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Elkin in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Elkin in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Elkin by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Elkin ranks at #6,472. That means there are 6,471 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Elkin.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Elkin. Boys named Elkin have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,489 Elkin ranked higher than ever in 1922. By comparison, there have been 108 years in which the first name Elkin has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2020. In general, parents name their sons Elkin only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elkin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Elkin continues to be a precious jewel: 15 newborns were named Elkin that year, ranking #5,043 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Elkin, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Elkin, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Elkin living in one state or another. (If your name is Elkin and you live outside of California and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 1,633,168 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Elkin. So if your name is Elkin, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Elkin already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Elkin is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.
If your name is Elkin and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Elkin, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Elkin sounds like this:
