Katana is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Katana is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Katana. In the SmartGenius ranking, Katana is #2,594 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Katana.
The odds of having a woman or girl named Katana in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Katana is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Katana live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 95,760 women and girls in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Katana.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Katana 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.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Katana 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 Katana, you can simply say:
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Tiger
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Katana
Katana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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T
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A
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.
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A
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A
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. Katana sounds like this:
