Ernie is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Ernie in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ernie in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Ernie by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Ernie ranks at #3,892. That means there are 3,891 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 11,853 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ernie. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
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 Ernie 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 Ernie 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 Ernie, you can simply say:
Elephant
Rocket
Nut
Igloo
Elephant
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. Ernie sounds like this:
