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The first name 
Izzy

Izzy is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to girls than boys.

Izzy – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Izzy in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 children are currently called Izzy. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Izzy at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Izzy is number *** on the list of most common first names.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Izzy

Izzy has 4 letters 
and begins with an I

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 Izzy 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Izzy

If your name is Izzy 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...

This is how you spell the name Izzy

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Izzy, you can simply say:

Igloo

Zebra

Zebra

Yoyo

This is how the name Izzy is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Izzy in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Izzy

Izzy

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Izzy

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Izzy is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

I
Z
Z
Y

Have you ever waved the name Izzy

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
Z
Z
Y

Beeping like crazy...

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. Izzy sounds like this: