Obed is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Obed is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 boys have been named Obed. In the SmartGenius ranking, Obed is #1,664 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 Obed.
The odds of having a man or boy named Obed 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 Obed is registered in 16 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Obed live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 17,559 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Obed.
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 four letters, the name Obed is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
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 Obed 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 Obed, you can simply say:
Orange
Butterfly
Elephant
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Obed
Obed
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
B
E
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
B
E
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. Obed sounds like this:
