Ibn is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Ibn in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ibn in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Ibn by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Ibn ranks at #6,164. That means there are 6,163 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 Ibn.
In fact, the name Ibn hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Ibn wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1979, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,561, 32 parents chose it in 1979 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Ibn, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ibn was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Ibn a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 6,204, for a total of 11 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Ibn seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Ibn is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 451 Americans in total bear this name. And these 451 men are located in only four states: California, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania (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 Ibn 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 Ibn in relation to it’s male population is New Jersey. And yet even there, only one in 10,834 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Ibn present.
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 Ibn 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.
If your name is Ibn 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 Ibn, you can simply say:
Igloo
Butterfly
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ibn
Ibn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
B
N
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
B
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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. Ibn sounds like this:
