Melbourne is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Melbourne has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Melbourne. That means that a boy named Melbourne is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Melbourne.
Is the name Melbourne a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 6 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1901 – at that time, it ranked #786. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Melbourne is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their baby boy this unusual name. So, if your name is Melbourne, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Melbourne was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Melbourne born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Melbourne born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Melbourne. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 120 Americans who bear this name. And these 120 men and boys named Melbourne live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Minnesota. In the other 43 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Melbourne lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Melbourne and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Melbourne relative to its male population is Michigan. And even there, only one male in 98,287 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Melbourne.
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 nine letters, the name Melbourne is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. 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 6.2% 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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne, you can simply say:
Mouse
Elephant
Lion
Butterfly
Orange
Unicorn
Rocket
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Melbourne
Melbourne
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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B
O
U
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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. Melbourne sounds like this:
