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The first name 
Niam

Niam is a male first name.

Niam is a well-known but special name!

Niam is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1345 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,344 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Niam.

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

Niam -
quite rare in all states

The odds of having a man or boy named Niam in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Niam is registered in 16 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Niam live in New Jersey, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 43,439 men and boys in New Jersey for their name before you meet one who answers with Niam.

Niam has 4 letters 
and begins with an N

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 four letters, the name Niam is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.

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.

Other names with 
N, i, a and m

If you take all the letters in the name Niam – N, i, a and m – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Nami or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Niam

If your name is Niam 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 Niam

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

Nut

Igloo

Apple

Mouse

This is how the name Niam 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 Niam in Braille?

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

Niam

Niam

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

N
I
A
M

Have you ever waved the name Niam

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
I
A
M

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. Niam sounds like this: