Olan is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Olan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Olan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Olan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Olan ranks at #3,892. That means there are 3,891 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 Olan.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Olan. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 740 Americans who bear this name. And these 740 men and boys named Olan live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Louisiana. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Olan lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Olan and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Olan relative to its male population is Oklahoma. And even there, only one male in 24,491 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Olan.
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 Olan 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 Olan 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 Olan, you can simply say:
Orange
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Olan
Olan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
L
A
N
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
L
A
N
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. Olan sounds like this:
