North is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
There’s a good chance that a boy named North in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named North in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named North by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, North ranks at #5,972. That means there are 5,971 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
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 North 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 North 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 North, you can simply say:
Nut
Orange
Rocket
Tiger
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
North
North
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
O
R
T
H
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
O
R
T
H
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. North sounds like this:
