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The first name 
Gryphon

Gryphon is a first name for boys.

Gryphon – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Gryphon in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Gryphon in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Gryphon by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Gryphon ranks at #3,978. That means there are 3,977 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 Gryphon.

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

Gryphon -
at home in California and Virginia

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Gryphon, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Virginia. 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 Gryphon living in one state or another. (If your name is Gryphon and you live outside of California and Virginia, 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 734,991 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Gryphon. So if your name is Gryphon, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Gryphon already makes you quite special.

Gryphon has 7 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 seven letters, the name Gryphon 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.

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 Gryphon

If your name is Gryphon 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 Gryphon

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

Goat

Rocket

Yoyo

Pig

Hat

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Gryphon 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 Gryphon in Braille?

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

Gryphon

Gryphon

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

G
R
Y
P
H
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Gryphon

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
Y
P
H
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. Gryphon sounds like this: