Jersey is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
Jersey is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,388 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,387 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jersey.
You may not know anyone named Jersey, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 35 states are home to women and girls named Jersey. (To be fair, 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 entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Jersey living in one state or another. If your name is Jersey and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Iowa, which has the most people named Jersey relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,154 women and girls their names before you hear Jersey as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Jersey 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.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jersey 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 Jersey, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Rocket
Sun
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jersey
Jersey
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
R
S
E
Y
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
E
R
S
E
Y
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. Jersey sounds like this:
