English is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name English is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named English each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called English will meet someone with the same name. So, English is a very special name!
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 English. Children named English have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 2,096 English ranked higher than ever in 1889. By comparison, there have been 85 years in which the first name English 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 2022. In general, parents name their newborns English only once in a blue moon, so people with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name English was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 given names: 3.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.
With seven letters, the name English has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
Thus, it follows that with 3.8% of all first names starting with an E, this initial letter occurs exactly as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is English 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 English, you can simply say:
Elephant
Nut
Goat
Lion
Igloo
Sun
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
English
English
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
N
G
L
I
S
H
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.
E
N
G
L
I
S
H
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. English sounds like this:
