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The first name 
Kollyns

Kollyns is a female first name.

When two girls called Kollyns meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Kollyns 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 Kollyns. In the SmartGenius ranking, Kollyns is #2,619 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 Kollyns.

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

Kollyns -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Kollyns are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Kollyns in 24 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida or Illinois. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Kollyns live in Nebraska – here, one in 79,091 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 470,038 will turn around if you call her first name Kollyns.

Kollyns 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 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 seven letters, the name Kollyns 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 7.5% 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kollyns

If your name is Kollyns 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 Kollyns

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

Koala

Orange

Lion

Lion

Yoyo

Nut

Sun

This is how the name Kollyns 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 Kollyns in Braille?

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

Kollyns

Kollyns

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

K
O
L
L
Y
N
S

Have you ever waved the name Kollyns

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
O
L
L
Y
N
S

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. Kollyns sounds like this: