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The first name 
Glenston

Glenston is a male first name.

Glenston – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Glenston 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 Glenston. That means that a boy named Glenston is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. Of all Americans currently living, not even one in 100,000 would answer if you shouted out the name Glenston.

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

Glenston -
something very, very special - even in his home state New York!

If you’re looking for someone named Glenston, you might want to head to New York. Why New York of all places? Well, simply because, according to official statistics, there are no men or boys named Glenston 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 Glenston living in one state or another. But, in any case the name is extremely rare. (If your name happens to be Glenston and you live outside of New York, 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 New York, the name Glenston is not really that common – there are only 5 men and boys with this name living there right now, which is not more than 0.00004% of all male residents of New York – so if you are one of them, you can rightly say that you are someone very special!

Glenston has 8 letters 
and begins with a G

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 eight letters, the name Glenston is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Glenston

If your name is Glenston 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 Glenston

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

Goat

Lion

Elephant

Nut

Sun

Tiger

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Glenston 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 Glenston in Braille?

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

Glenston

Glenston

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

G
L
E
N
S
T
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Glenston

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.

G
L
E
N
S
T
O
N

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. Glenston sounds like this: