Prosper is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Prosper in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Prosper in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Prosper by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Prosper ranks at #4,237. That means there are 4,236 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. Of all Americans currently living, not even one in 100,000 would answer if you shouted out the name Prosper.
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 Prosper 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 Prosper 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 Prosper, you can simply say:
Pig
Rocket
Orange
Sun
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Prosper
Prosper
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
R
O
S
P
E
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
R
O
S
P
E
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. Prosper sounds like this:
