Quetzal is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
At least in the US, the name Quetzal is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Quetzal each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Quetzal will meet someone with the same name. So, Quetzal is a very special 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 given names: only 0.6% of all common first names in the US begin with a Q. Only the letters U and X are even rarer as the initial letter of first names. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A and J.
With seven letters, the name Quetzal 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.
That means that as 0.6% of all first names start with a Q, all other letters occur on average six times as often as the Q.
If your name is Quetzal 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 Quetzal, you can simply say:
Queen
Unicorn
Elephant
Tiger
Zebra
Apple
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Quetzal
Quetzal
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Q
U
E
T
Z
A
L
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
U
E
T
Z
A
L
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. Quetzal sounds like this:
