Odysseus is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Odysseus is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Odysseus. In the SmartGenius ranking, Odysseus is #3,083 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 Odysseus.
The first name Odysseus is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 59 Americans in total bear this name. And these 59 men are located in only three states: California, Texas and Washington (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 Odysseus 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 Odysseus in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 379,806 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Odysseus present.
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 eight letters, the name Odysseus is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. 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
If your name is Odysseus 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 Odysseus, you can simply say:
Orange
Dinosaur
Yoyo
Sun
Sun
Elephant
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Odysseus
Odysseus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
D
Y
S
S
E
U
S
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
D
Y
S
S
E
U
S
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. Odysseus sounds like this:
