Sheng is traditionally a female first name but has increasingly been given as a boys’ name in recent years.
Recently, the name Sheng has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Sheng. That means that a girl named Sheng is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sheng.
The first name Sheng is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 220 Americans in total bear this name. And these 220 women are located in only three states: California, Minnesota and Wisconsin (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Sheng and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Sheng in relation to it’s female population is Minnesota. And yet even there, only one in 75,965 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Sheng.
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 five letters, the name Sheng 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.
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 Sheng 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 Sheng, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Elephant
Nut
Goat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sheng
Sheng
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
E
N
G
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
N
G
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. Sheng sounds like this:
