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The first name 
Furnell

Furnell is a male first name.

Furnell – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Furnell has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Furnell. That means that a boy named Furnell is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Furnell.

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

Furnell -
something very, very special - even in his home state Louisiana!

If you’re looking for someone named Furnell, you might want to head to Louisiana. Why Louisiana of all places? Well, simply because, according to official statistics, there are no men or boys named Furnell living in any other state. However, we have to admit that a first name is only listed in the official statistics of a state if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it may well be that there are still a few men and boys named Furnell living in one state or another. But, in any case the name is extremely rare. (If your name happens to be Furnell and you live outside of Louisiana, we would be very grateful if you could let us know so that we can refine our statistics even further). By the way, even in Louisiana, the name Furnell is not really that common – there are only 25 men and boys with this name living there right now, which is not more than 0.00086% of all male residents of Louisiana – so if you are one of them, you can rightly say that you are someone very special!

Furnell has 7 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 seven letters, the name Furnell has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Furnell

If your name is Furnell 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 Furnell

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

Fox

Unicorn

Rocket

Nut

Elephant

Lion

Lion

This is how the name Furnell 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 Furnell in Braille?

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

Furnell

Furnell

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

F
U
R
N
E
L
L

Have you ever waved the name Furnell

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
U
R
N
E
L
L

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. Furnell sounds like this: