Islam is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Islam in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Islam in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Islam by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Islam ranks at #4,878. That means there are 4,877 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 Islam.
In fact, the name Islam hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Islam 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 1990, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,158, 28 parents chose it in 1990 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Islam, 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 Islam was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Islam a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 4,483, for a total of 18 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 Islam seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Islam, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in New Jersey or New York. 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 Islam living in one state or another. (If your name is Islam and you live outside of New Jersey and New York, 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 153,808 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Islam. So if your name is Islam, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Islam already makes you quite special.
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 Islam 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 Islam 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 Islam, you can simply say:
Igloo
Sun
Lion
Apple
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Islam
Islam
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
S
L
A
M
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
S
L
A
M
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. Islam sounds like this:
