Joplin is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Joplin in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Joplin in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Joplin by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Joplin ranks at #5,494. That means there are 5,493 more common girls 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 Joplin.
Meeting a woman or girl named Joplin is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Joplin can be found in only two: Indiana and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Joplin. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Joplin living in one state or another (if your name is Joplin and you live outside of Indiana or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Joplin is in Indiana, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Indiana, only 0.00014% of all female residents are named Joplin – that’s just one in 716,989! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 10 women with that name. So, if your name is Joplin, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
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 Joplin 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 Joplin 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 Joplin, you can simply say:
Joker
Orange
Pig
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Joplin
Joplin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
O
P
L
I
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
P
L
I
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. Joplin sounds like this:
