Precious is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Precious is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,688 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,687 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 16,033 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Precious. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
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 eight letters, the name Precious is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Precious 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 Precious, you can simply say:
Pig
Rocket
Elephant
Cat
Igloo
Orange
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Precious
Precious
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Precious sounds like this: