Gerson is a male first name.
Gerson is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1507 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,506 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Gerson.
If your name is Gerson your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Gerson has never ranked higher than position 1,049 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Gerson for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1912 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Gerson because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Gerson was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Gerson is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 94 times in the entire USA. So a Gerson of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The odds of having a man or boy named Gerson 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 Gerson is registered in 16 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Gerson live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 19,124 men and boys in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Gerson.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is not really common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with G. 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 Gerson 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.
That means that with 2.8% of all boys' names beginning with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with G that are quite popular, the most common at present is George.
If your name is Gerson 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 Gerson, you can simply say:
Goat
Elephant
Rocket
Sun
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gerson
Gerson
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. Gerson sounds like this:
