Napoleon is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Napoleon in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Napoleon in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Napoleon by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Napoleon ranks at #4,534. That means there are 4,533 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 Napoleon.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Napoleon annualy. This means that there have been boys named Napoleon who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Napoleon have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Napoleon even more than any other time: in 1887, it holds its present record at rank #276 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Napoleon was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Napoleon has never been ranked higher than #276. In 2022, he rivaled the 6,626 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 10 boys named Napoleon were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Napoleon were born, there have been 46 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.0% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an N. This means that N as the first letter for boys' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Napoleon 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.
Thus, if 3.0% of all boys’ names start with an N, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with N that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Nicholas.
If your name is Napoleon 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 Napoleon, you can simply say:
Nut
Apple
Pig
Orange
Lion
Elephant
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Napoleon
Napoleon
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
A
P
O
L
E
O
N
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.
N
A
P
O
L
E
O
N
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. Napoleon sounds like this:
