Sanford is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Sanford in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sanford in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Sanford by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Sanford ranks at #5,314. That means there are 5,313 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 10,190 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Sanford. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Sanford annualy. This means that there have been boys named Sanford 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 Sanford 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 Sanford even more than any other time: in 1882, it holds its present record at rank #281 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sanford was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Sanford has never been ranked higher than #281. In 2022, he rivaled the 4,323 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 19 boys named Sanford were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Sanford were born, there have been 23 newborns who received this name.
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 Sanford 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.
If your name is Sanford 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 Sanford, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Nut
Fox
Orange
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sanford
Sanford
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
N
F
O
R
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.
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A
N
F
O
R
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. Sanford sounds like this:
