Sheikh is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Sheikh in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sheikh in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Sheikh by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Sheikh ranks at #5,384. That means there are 5,383 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 Sheikh.
Meeting a man or boy named Sheikh is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Sheikh can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Sheikh. 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 Sheikh living in one state or another. (If your name is Sheikh 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 Sheikh is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00083% of all male residents are called Sheikh – that’s just one in 120,435! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 106 men going by that name. So, if your name is Sheikh, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first 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 six letters, the name Sheikh is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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 Sheikh 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 Sheikh, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Elephant
Igloo
Koala
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sheikh
Sheikh
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
E
I
K
H
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
E
I
K
H
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. Sheikh sounds like this:
