Perseus is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Perseus 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 Perseus. In the SmartGenius ranking, Perseus is #1,687 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 Perseus.
The odds of having a man or boy named Perseus 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 Perseus is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Perseus live in Colorado, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 117,235 men and boys in Colorado for their name before you meet one who answers with Perseus.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Perseus 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.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Perseus 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 Perseus, you can simply say:
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Sun
Elephant
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Perseus
Perseus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
E
R
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.
P
E
R
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. Perseus sounds like this:
