Ethyn is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ethyn is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Ethyn. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ethyn is #2,233 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ethyn.
The odds of having a man or boy named Ethyn in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Ethyn is registered in 17 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Ethyn live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 112,830 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Ethyn.
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 Ethyn 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 Ethyn 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 Ethyn, you can simply say:
Elephant
Tiger
Hat
Yoyo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ethyn
Ethyn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
T
H
Y
N
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
T
H
Y
N
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. Ethyn sounds like this:
