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The first name 
Griffith

Griffith is a male first name.

Griffith – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Griffith in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Griffith in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Griffith by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Griffith ranks at #4,878. That means there are 4,877 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 Griffith.

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

Griffith -
at home in California and Pennsylvania

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Griffith, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Pennsylvania. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Griffith living in one state or another. (If your name is Griffith and you live outside of California and Pennsylvania, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 327,631 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Griffith. So if your name is Griffith, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Griffith already makes you quite special.

Griffith 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 Griffith 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 Griffith

If your name is Griffith 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 Griffith

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

Goat

Rocket

Igloo

Fox

Fox

Igloo

Tiger

Hat

This is how the name Griffith 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 Griffith in Braille?

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

Griffith

Griffith

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

G
R
I
F
F
I
T
H

Have you ever waved the name Griffith

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
R
I
F
F
I
T
H

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. Griffith sounds like this: