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The first name 
Minato

Minato is a male first name.

Minato – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Minato in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Minato in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Minato by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Minato ranks at #7,050. That means there are 7,049 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.

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

Minato has 6 letters 
and begins with an M

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 six letters, the name Minato is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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 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.

Other names with 
M, i, n, a, t and o

If you take all the letters in the name Minato – M, i, n, a, t and o – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Antimo or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Minato

If your name is Minato 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 Minato

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

Mouse

Igloo

Nut

Apple

Tiger

Orange

This is how the name Minato 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 Minato in Braille?

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

Minato

Minato

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

M
I
N
A
T
O

Have you ever waved the name Minato

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
I
N
A
T
O

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. Minato sounds like this: