Phineas is a first name for boys.
Phineas is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1352 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,351 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Phineas.
Is the name Phineas a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1880 – at that time, it landed at position 793 with 5 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Phineas is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Phineas, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Phineas was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Phineas, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 105 parents welcomed a new Phineas to earth that year. That makes Phineas ranking on position 1,485 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Phineas who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
You may not know anyone named Phineas, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to men and boys named Phineas. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Phineas living in one state or another. If your name is Phineas and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Phineas relative to the population, you still have to ask 28,972 men and boys their names before you hear Phineas as an answer just once.
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 Phineas 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 Phineas 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 Phineas, you can simply say:
Pig
Hat
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Apple
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Phineas
Phineas
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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H
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N
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A
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
H
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A
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. Phineas sounds like this:
