Maryland is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Maryland is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Maryland each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Maryland will meet someone with the same name. So, Maryland is a very special name!
If your name is Maryland your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Maryland never ranked higher than position 1,883 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their newborn Maryland. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1884 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Maryland because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maryland was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Maryland still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Maryland who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
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 first names – 7.4% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A and J.
With eight letters, the name Maryland is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.3% of all first names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Maryland 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 Maryland, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Rocket
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maryland
Maryland
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
R
Y
L
A
N
D
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
R
Y
L
A
N
D
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. Maryland sounds like this:
