Oakland is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Oakland is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Oakland. In the SmartGenius ranking, Oakland is #1,753 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 Oakland.
The odds of having a man or boy named Oakland 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 Oakland is registered in 18 states, among which are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana or Kansas. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Oakland live in Utah, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 75,649 men and boys in Utah for their name before you meet one who answers with Oakland.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an O. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Oakland has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
That means that since 1.8% of all boys’ names begin with an O, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names beginning with an O, which are quite popular
If your name is Oakland 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 Oakland, you can simply say:
Orange
Apple
Koala
Lion
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Oakland
Oakland
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
A
K
L
A
N
D
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.
O
A
K
L
A
N
D
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. Oakland sounds like this:
