Selim is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Selim is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Selim. In the SmartGenius ranking, Selim is #2,100 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 Selim.
In fact, the name Selim did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Selim seemed to be more popular than ever in 2017. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,729, 78 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Selim, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Selim was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Selim a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,106 - with a total of 59 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Selim. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 411 Americans who bear this name. And these 411 men and boys named Selim live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey and New York. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Selim lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Selim and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Selim relative to its male population is Florida. And even there, only one male in 85,304 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Selim.
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 five letters, the name Selim is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
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 Selim 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 Selim, you can simply say:
Sun
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Selim
Selim
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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I
M
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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M
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. Selim sounds like this:
