Shayaan is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Shayaan is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Shayaan. In the SmartGenius ranking, Shayaan is #2,856 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 Shayaan.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Shayaan. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 256 Americans who bear this name. And these 256 men and boys named Shayaan live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, 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 Shayaan lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Shayaan 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 Shayaan relative to its male population is New York. And even there, only one male in 113,983 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Shayaan.
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 Shayaan 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 Shayaan 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 Shayaan, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Yoyo
Apple
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shayaan
Shayaan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
Y
A
A
N
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
H
A
Y
A
A
N
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. Shayaan sounds like this:
