Nikan is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Nikan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Nikan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Nikan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Nikan 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. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Nikan.
Meeting a man or boy named Nikan is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Nikan can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Nikan. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Nikan living in one state or another. (If your name is Nikan and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Nikan is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00008% of all male residents are called Nikan – that’s just one in 1,256,283! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 13 men going by that name. So, if your name is Nikan, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first 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 five letters, the name Nikan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
If your name is Nikan 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 Nikan, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Koala
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nikan
Nikan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
I
K
A
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
I
K
A
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. Nikan sounds like this:
