Presented by

The first name 
Qais

Qais is a first name for boys.

Qais – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Qais in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Qais in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Qais by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Qais ranks at #3,703. That means there are 3,702 more common boys 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 Qais.

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

Qais -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

The first name Qais is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 43 Americans in total bear this name. And these 43 men are located in only five states: California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Qais and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Qais in relation to it’s male population is Illinois. And yet even there, only one in 742,775 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Qais present.

Qais has 4 letters 
and begins with a Q

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The Q is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 0.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a Q. Only the letters X and U are even rarer as the first letter of boys' names. By the way, the most common initial letters for boys’ names are J and A.

With four letters, the name Qais is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 as 0.8% of all boys' names start with a Q, all other letters occur on average more than five times as often as the Q. Of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a Q, most are also not very common - the most popular currently is the one of Mr. Tarantino.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Qais

If your name is Qais 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 Qais

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

Queen

Apple

Igloo

Sun

This is how the name Qais 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 Qais in Braille?

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

Qais

Qais

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

Q
A
I
S

Have you ever waved the name Qais

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.

Q
A
I
S

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. Qais sounds like this: