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The first name 
Ichiro

Ichiro is a first name for boys.

Ichiro – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Ichiro has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Ichiro. That means that a boy named Ichiro is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ichiro.

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

Ichiro -
at home in California and Hawaii

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Ichiro, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Hawaii. 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 Ichiro living in one state or another. (If your name is Ichiro and you live outside of California and Hawaii, 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 7,056 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Ichiro. So if your name is Ichiro, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Ichiro already makes you quite special.

Ichiro has 6 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 six letters, the name Ichiro is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ichiro

If your name is Ichiro 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 Ichiro

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

Igloo

Cat

Hat

Igloo

Rocket

Orange

This is how the name Ichiro 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 Ichiro in Braille?

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

Ichiro

Ichiro

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

I
C
H
I
R
O

Have you ever waved the name Ichiro

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
C
H
I
R
O

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. Ichiro sounds like this: