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The first name 
Obaloluwa

Obaloluwa is a male first name.

Obaloluwa – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Obaloluwa in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Obaloluwa in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Obaloluwa by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Obaloluwa ranks at #6,582. That means there are 6,581 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 Obaloluwa.

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

Obaloluwa -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Obaloluwa is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Obaloluwa can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Obaloluwa. 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 Obaloluwa living in one state or another. (If your name is Obaloluwa 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 Obaloluwa is in Texas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00017% of all male residents are called Obaloluwa – that’s just one in 580,271! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 21 men going by that name. So, if your name is Obaloluwa, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Obaloluwa has 9 letters 
and begins with an O

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 nine letters, the name Obaloluwa is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Obaloluwa

If your name is Obaloluwa 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 Obaloluwa

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

Orange

Butterfly

Apple

Lion

Orange

Lion

Unicorn

Windmill

Apple

This is how the name Obaloluwa 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 Obaloluwa in Braille?

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

Obaloluwa

Obaloluwa

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

O
B
A
L
O
L
U
W
A

Have you ever waved the name Obaloluwa

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
B
A
L
O
L
U
W
A

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. Obaloluwa sounds like this: