Ontario is a male first name.
Recently, the name Ontario has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Ontario. That means that a boy named Ontario is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ontario.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Ontario. Boys named Ontario have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,691 Ontario ranked higher than ever in 1973. By comparison, there have been 89 years in which the first name Ontario has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2015. In general, parents name their sons Ontario only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ontario was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Ontario continues to be a precious jewel: 7 newborns were named Ontario that year, ranking #8,311 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Ontario, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Ontario is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 57 Americans in total bear this name. And these 57 men are located in only five states: Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina (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 Ontario 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 Ontario in relation to it’s male population is Georgia. And yet even there, only one in 148,139 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Ontario 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 seven letters, the name Ontario 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 Ontario 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 Ontario, you can simply say:
Orange
Nut
Tiger
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ontario
Ontario
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
N
T
A
R
I
O
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
N
T
A
R
I
O
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. Ontario sounds like this:
