Fenton is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Fenton in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Fenton in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Fenton by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Fenton ranks at #3,776. That means there are 3,775 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 Fenton.
Fenton is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2000, where the name Fenton was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Fenton and were born in the USA in 2000, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Fenton even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular boys' names: In 1895, it ranked on position 643 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Fenton was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Fenton has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 9 times and thus landed on position 7,071 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular male first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 9 boys with the name Fenton, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Fenton. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 78 Americans who bear this name. And these 78 men and boys named Fenton live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Fenton lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Fenton and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Fenton relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 375,474 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Fenton.
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 Fenton 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.
If your name is Fenton 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 Fenton, you can simply say:
Fox
Elephant
Nut
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Fenton
Fenton
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. Fenton sounds like this:
