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The first name 
Iam

Iam is a first name for boys.

Iam – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Iam in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Iam in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Iam by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Iam ranks at #4,175. That means there are 4,174 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 Iam.

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

Iam -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Iam is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 43 Americans in total bear this name. And these 43 men are located in only four states: California, Florida, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Iam and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Iam in relation to it’s male population is Florida. And yet even there, only one in 504,069 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Iam present.

Iam has 3 letters 
and begins with an I

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With only three letters, the name Iam is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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.

That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.

Other names with 
I, a and m

If you take all the letters in the name Iam – I, a and m – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Ami or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Iam

If your name is Iam 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 Iam

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

Igloo

Apple

Mouse

This is how the name Iam 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 Iam in Braille?

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

Iam

Iam

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

I
A
M

Have you ever waved the name Iam

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.

I
A
M

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. Iam sounds like this: