Johnston is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Johnston has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Johnston. That means that a boy named Johnston is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Johnston. Boys named Johnston have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,888 Johnston ranked higher than ever in 1914. By comparison, there have been 82 years in which the first name Johnston has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2019. In general, parents name their sons Johnston only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Johnston was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Johnston continues to be a precious jewel: 10 newborns were named Johnston that year, ranking #6,627 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Johnston, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
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 eight letters, the name Johnston is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Johnston 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 Johnston, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Hat
Nut
Sun
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Johnston
Johnston
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
H
N
S
T
O
N
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
O
H
N
S
T
O
N
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. Johnston sounds like this:
