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The first name 
Reno

Reno is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.

When two boys called Reno meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Reno is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Reno. In the SmartGenius ranking, Reno is #3,491 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Reno.

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

Reno -
quite rare in all states

The odds of having a man or boy named Reno in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Reno is registered in 14 states, among which are Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida or Hawaii. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Reno live in Maine, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 26,490 men and boys in Maine for their name before you meet one who answers with Reno.

Reno has 4 letters 
and begins with an R

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.

With four letters, the name Reno 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.

Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.

Other names with 
R, e, n and o

If you take all the letters in the name Reno – R, e, n and o – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Oren or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Reno

If your name is Reno 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 Reno

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

Rocket

Elephant

Nut

Orange

This is how the name Reno 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 Reno in Braille?

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

Reno

Reno

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
E
N
O

Have you ever waved the name Reno

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.

R
E
N
O

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. Reno sounds like this: