Pilar is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Pilar is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Pilar. In the SmartGenius ranking, Pilar is #2,665 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Pilar.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Pilar are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Pilar is registered in 14 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Pilar live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 12,254 would turn around if you called the name Pilar across California.
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 girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With five letters, the name Pilar is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Pilar 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 Pilar, you can simply say:
Pig
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pilar
Pilar
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
I
L
A
R
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
I
L
A
R
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. Pilar sounds like this:
