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The first name 
Farris

Farris is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.

Farris – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Farris in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Farris in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Farris by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Farris ranks at #5,513. That means there are 5,512 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 Farris.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Farris

Farris -
quite rare in all states

The odds of having a man or boy named Farris 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 Farris is registered in 14 states, among which are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Farris live in Georgia, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 18,673 men and boys in Georgia for their name before you meet one who answers with Farris.

Farris has 6 letters 
and begins with an F

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an F. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With six letters, the name Farris is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.

Therefore: As 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual boys' names with F are really popular, the most common currently being Frank.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Farris

If your name is Farris 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...

This is how you spell the name Farris

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Farris, you can simply say:

Fox

Apple

Rocket

Rocket

Igloo

Sun

This is how the name Farris is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Farris in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Farris

Farris

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Farris

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Farris is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

F
A
R
R
I
S

Have you ever waved the name Farris

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.

F
A
R
R
I
S

Beeping like crazy...

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. Farris sounds like this: