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The first name 
Nirav

Nirav is a male first name.

Nirav – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Nirav in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Nirav in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Nirav by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Nirav ranks at #6,347. That means there are 6,346 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 Nirav.

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

Nirav -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Nirav. Boys named Nirav have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,085 Nirav ranked higher than ever before in 1984. By comparison, there have been 98 years in which the first name Nirav has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their sons Nirav only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Nirav was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Nirav in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Nirav continues to be a precious jewel: 10 newborns were named Nirav that year, ranking #6,627 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Nirav, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Nirav -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Nirav is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 46 Americans in total bear this name. And these 46 men are located in only five states: California, Illinois, New Jersey, 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 Nirav 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 Nirav in relation to it’s male population is Illinois. And yet even there, only one in 408,527 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Nirav present.

Nirav has 5 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 five letters, the name Nirav 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.

Other names with 
N, i, r, a and v

If you take all the letters in the name Nirav – N, i, r, a and v – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Irvan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Nirav

If your name is Nirav 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 Nirav

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

Nut

Igloo

Rocket

Apple

Violin

This is how the name Nirav 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 Nirav in Braille?

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

Nirav

Nirav

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

N
I
R
A
V

Have you ever waved the name Nirav

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
R
A
V

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. Nirav sounds like this: