Iran is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Iran is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Iran each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Iran will meet someone with the same name. So, Iran is a very special name!
While Iran is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1975, the name Iran reached its highest popularity with #3,422 in our ranking of all first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their baby Iran. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and children in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Iran.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Iran was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 11 babies were born with the name Iran. This puts the name in rank 15,186 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 30,054,718 newborns was named Iran that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Iran has been and remains marvelously unusual!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with I, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But I is by no means the rarest initial. While U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K.
With four letters, the name Iran is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all first names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Iran 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 Iran, you can simply say:
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Iran
Iran
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
R
A
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
R
A
N
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. Iran sounds like this:
