Niles is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Niles is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Niles. In the SmartGenius ranking, Niles is #2,134 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 Niles.
The odds of having a man or boy named Niles 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 Niles is registered in 18 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Niles live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 71,007 men and boys in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Niles.
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 Niles 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 Niles 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 Niles, you can simply say:
Nut
Igloo
Lion
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Niles
Niles
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
I
L
E
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.
N
I
L
E
S
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. Niles sounds like this:
