Karlin is a first name for all genders. The name is given about equally often as boys and girls name.
At least in the US, the name Karlin is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Karlin each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Karlin will meet someone with the same name. So, Karlin is a very special name!
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 Karlin. Kids called Karlin have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 5,242 Karlin ranked higher than ever in 1969. By comparison, there have been 76 years in which the first name Karlin 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 1982. In general, parents name their babies Karlin only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Karlin you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Karlin was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Karlin continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Karlin that year, ranking #25,193 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Karlin, 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 K is a quite popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the initial letters A and J are more common for first names.
With six letters, the name Karlin 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.
Therefore: As 7.7% of all first names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Karlin 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 Karlin, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Rocket
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Karlin
Karlin
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
R
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.
K
A
R
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. Karlin sounds like this:
