Jah is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Jah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Jah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Jah by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Jah ranks at #4,395. That means there are 4,394 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 Jah.
The first name Jah is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 43 Americans in total bear this name. And these 43 men are located in only four states: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas (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 Jah 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 Jah in relation to it’s male population is Georgia. And yet even there, only one in 404,016 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Jah present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With only three letters, the name Jah is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jah 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 Jah, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Hat
The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jah
Jah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
H
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.
J
A
H
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. Jah sounds like this:
