Qalid is a male first name.
Recently, the name Qalid has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Qalid. That means that a boy named Qalid is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Qalid.
Meeting a man or boy named Qalid is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Qalid can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Qalid. 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 men and boys called Qalid living in one state or another. (If your name is Qalid and you live outside of , 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 Qalid is in Minnesota, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Minnesota, only 0.00016% of all male residents are called Qalid – that’s just one in 609,948! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Qalid, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
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 five letters, the name Qalid 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 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.
If your name is Qalid 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 Qalid, you can simply say:
Queen
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Qalid
Qalid
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Q
A
L
I
D
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
L
I
D
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. Qalid sounds like this:
