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The first name 
Purity

Purity is a female first name.

Purity – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Purity in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Purity in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Purity by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Purity ranks at #6,729. That means there are 6,728 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Purity.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Purity

Purity -
at home in California and Texas

Meeting a woman or girl named Purity is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Purity can be found in only two: California and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Purity. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Purity living in one state or another (if your name is Purity and you live outside of California or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Purity is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00016% of all female residents are named Purity – that’s just one in 622,529! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 23 women with that name. So, if your name is Purity, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Purity has 6 letters 
and begins with a P

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 six letters, the name Purity is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.

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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Purity

If your name is Purity 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...

This is how you spell the name Purity

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Purity, you can simply say:

Pig

Unicorn

Rocket

Igloo

Tiger

Yoyo

This is how the name Purity is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Purity in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Purity

Purity

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Purity

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Purity is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

P
U
R
I
T
Y

Have you ever waved the name Purity

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
U
R
I
T
Y

Beeping like crazy...

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. Purity sounds like this: