Homer is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Homer is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Homer. In the SmartGenius ranking, Homer is #3,346 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 49,459 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Homer. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Homer is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Homer for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Therefore, Homer is one of the 442 boys' names, that have been given to newborn sons every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Homer is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: Placed at #62 Homer has never been more popular than back in 1893.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Homer was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 35 babies were named Homer in the USA in 2022, ranking it #2,936 on the list of the most popular boys' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2003, when it was only ranked at #6,327 of all male names in our SmartGenius statistics - back then 9 boys were named Homer.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Homer is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Homer 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 Homer, you can simply say:
Hat
Orange
Mouse
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Homer
Homer
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. Homer sounds like this:
