Madoc is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Madoc in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Madoc in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Madoc by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Madoc ranks at #5,620. That means there are 5,619 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 Madoc.
Meeting a man or boy named Madoc is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Madoc can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Madoc. 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 Madoc living in one state or another. (If your name is Madoc and you live outside of , 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 Madoc is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all male residents are called Madoc – that’s just one in 3,266,336! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Madoc, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Madoc 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 with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Madoc 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 Madoc, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Dinosaur
Orange
Cat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Madoc
Madoc
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
D
O
C
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.
M
A
D
O
C
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. Madoc sounds like this:
