Keene is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Keene in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Keene in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Keene by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Keene ranks at #6,765. That means there are 6,764 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
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 Keene. Boys named Keene have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,027 Keene ranked higher than ever in 1948. By comparison, there have been 84 years in which the first name Keene 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 1989. In general, parents name their sons Keene 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 Keene was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Keene continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Keene that year, ranking #9,177 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Keene, 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 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 five letters, the name Keene is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
If your name is Keene 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 Keene, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Keene
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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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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. Keene sounds like this:
