Nicodemus is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Nicodemus is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Nicodemus. In the SmartGenius ranking, Nicodemus is #2,920 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nicodemus.
In fact, the name Nicodemus hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Nicodemus wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1994, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,212, 31 parents chose it in 1994 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Nicodemus, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nicodemus was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Nicodemus a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 2,437, for a total of 47 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Nicodemus seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Nicodemus is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 91 Americans in total bear this name. And these 91 men are located in only three states: California, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Nicodemus and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Nicodemus in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 255,182 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Nicodemus present.
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 nine letters, the name Nicodemus 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.
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 Nicodemus 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 Nicodemus, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Cat
Orange
Dinosaur
Elephant
Mouse
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nicodemus
Nicodemus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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D
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M
U
S
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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C
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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. Nicodemus sounds like this:
