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The first name 
Salmaan

Salmaan is a first name for boys.

Salmaan – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Salmaan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Salmaan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Salmaan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Salmaan ranks at #6,306. That means there are 6,305 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 Salmaan.

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

Salmaan -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Salmaan is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Salmaan can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Salmaan. 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 Salmaan living in one state or another. (If your name is Salmaan 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 Salmaan 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 0.00049% of all male residents are called Salmaan – that’s just one in 203,316! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 15 men going by that name. So, if your name is Salmaan, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Salmaan has 7 letters 
and begins with an S

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.

With seven letters, the name Salmaan 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.

This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Salmaan

If your name is Salmaan 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 Salmaan

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

Sun

Apple

Lion

Mouse

Apple

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Salmaan 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 Salmaan in Braille?

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

Salmaan

Salmaan

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

S
A
L
M
A
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Salmaan

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.

S
A
L
M
A
A
N

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. Salmaan sounds like this: