Eyal is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Eyal in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Eyal in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Eyal by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Eyal ranks at #5,264. That means there are 5,263 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 Eyal.
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 Eyal. Boys named Eyal have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,969 Eyal ranked higher than ever in 1969. By comparison, there have been 103 years in which the first name Eyal 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 2000. In general, parents name their sons Eyal 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 Eyal was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Eyal continues to be a precious jewel: 9 newborns were named Eyal that year, ranking #7,071 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Eyal, 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 Eyal, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or New York. 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 Eyal living in one state or another. (If your name is Eyal and you live outside of California and New York, 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 209,280 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Eyal. So if your name is Eyal, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Eyal 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 four letters, the name Eyal is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Eyal 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 Eyal, you can simply say:
Elephant
Yoyo
Apple
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Eyal
Eyal
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
Y
A
L
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
Y
A
L
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. Eyal sounds like this:
