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The first name 
Katsumi

Katsumi is traditionally a male first name but has increasingly been used as a girls’ name in recent years.

Katsumi – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Katsumi 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 Katsumi. That means that a boy named Katsumi is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Katsumi.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Katsumi

Katsumi has 7 letters 
and begins with a K

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 boys’ names. That’s because 7.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters J, A and D are more common for boys' names.

With seven letters, the name Katsumi has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 7.9% of all boys' 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 boys’ names that begin with a K, Kenneth is the most common.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Katsumi

If your name is Katsumi 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...

This is how you spell the name Katsumi

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Katsumi, you can simply say:

Koala

Apple

Tiger

Sun

Unicorn

Mouse

Igloo

This is how the name Katsumi is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Katsumi in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Katsumi

Katsumi

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Katsumi

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Katsumi is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

K
A
T
S
U
M
I

Have you ever waved the name Katsumi

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
T
S
U
M
I

Beeping like crazy...

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. Katsumi sounds like this: