Ross is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Ross is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1052 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,051 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 74,776 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ross. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Ross annualy. This means that there have been boys named Ross who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Ross have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Ross even more than any other time: in 1889, it holds its present record at rank #117 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ross was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Ross has never been ranked higher than #117. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,179 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 149 boys named Ross were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Ross were born, there have been 1,277 newborns who received this name.
The name Ross may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Ross is apparently especially popular in Hawaii. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 938 men in Hawaii is called Ross. In total, that’s 579 people who feel addressed when the name Ross is shouted loudly across Hawaii and who ensure that their name makes it to #205 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Ross as the answer a total of 74,776 times. This places Ross at #341 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Ross as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 Ross 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.
If your name is Ross 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 Ross, you can simply say:
Rocket
Orange
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ross
Ross
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Ross sounds like this:
