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The first name 
Kolston

Kolston is a first name for boys.

Kolston – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Kolston in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kolston in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Kolston by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Kolston ranks at #4,078. That means there are 4,077 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kolston.

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

Kolston -
at home in Louisiana and Texas

Meeting a man or boy named Kolston is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Kolston can be found in only two: Louisiana and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Kolston. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Kolston living in one state or another. (If your name is Kolston and you live outside of Louisiana or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Kolston is in Louisiana, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Louisiana, only 0.00170% of all male residents are called Kolston – that’s just one in 58,820! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 55 men going by that name. So, if your name is Kolston, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Kolston 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 Kolston 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 Kolston

If your name is Kolston 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 Kolston

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

Koala

Orange

Lion

Sun

Tiger

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Kolston 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 Kolston in Braille?

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

Kolston

Kolston

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

K
O
L
S
T
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Kolston

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
S
T
O
N

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. Kolston sounds like this: