September is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name September is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named September. In the SmartGenius ranking, September is #4,228 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named September.
In fact, the name September wasn't vogue in the 19th century, but between 1900 and 1975 young parents changed 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), September seemed more popular than ever in 1963, when 37 parents named their daughters September. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,782, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is September, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name September was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name September a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 5,090, for a total of 21 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for a many years. As September seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named September in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 206 women and girls named September, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 206 women and girls named September live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois and Michigan. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called September. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women 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 September lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is September 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 girls and women named September relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 122,237 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called September.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With nine letters, the name September is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is September 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 September, you can simply say:
Sun
Elephant
Pig
Tiger
Elephant
Mouse
Butterfly
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
September
September
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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M
B
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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.
S
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B
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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. September sounds like this:
