Island is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Island is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Island. In the SmartGenius ranking, Island is #3,819 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Island.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Island in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 84 women and girls named Island, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 84 women and girls named Island live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana and Michigan. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Island. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Island lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Island and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Island relative to its female population is Georgia. And even there, only one in 208,014 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Island.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Island 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 since 1.7% of all girls’ names begin with an I, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names that begin with an I, which are quite popular
If your name is Island 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 Island, you can simply say:
Igloo
Sun
Lion
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Island
Island
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
S
L
A
N
D
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
N
D
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. Island sounds like this:
