Irfan is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Irfan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Irfan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Irfan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Irfan ranks at #4,549. That means there are 4,548 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 Irfan.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Irfan. Boys named Irfan have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,608 Irfan ranked higher than ever before in 1981. By comparison, there have been 93 years in which the first name Irfan has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1997. In general, parents name their sons Irfan only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Irfan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Irfan continues to be a precious jewel: 23 newborns were named Irfan that year, ranking #3,845 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Irfan, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Irfan is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 76 Americans in total bear this name. And these 76 men are located in only three states: California, New York and Virginia (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 Irfan 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 Irfan in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 193,426 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Irfan 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 five letters, the name Irfan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Irfan 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 Irfan, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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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. Irfan sounds like this: