Imanol is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Imanol in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Imanol in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Imanol by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Imanol ranks at #5,780. That means there are 5,779 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 Imanol.
The odds of having a man or boy named Imanol in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Imanol is registered in 13 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Imanol live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 63,547 men and boys in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Imanol.
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 Imanol 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.
If your name is Imanol 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 Imanol, you can simply say:
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Nut
Orange
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Imanol
Imanol
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Imanol sounds like this: