Shmiel is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Shmiel 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 Shmiel. In the SmartGenius ranking, Shmiel is #2,681 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 Shmiel.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shmiel. Boys named Shmiel have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,192 Shmiel ranked higher than ever in 1959. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Shmiel has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1994. In general, parents name their sons Shmiel only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shmiel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Shmiel continues to be a precious jewel: 42 newborns were named Shmiel that year, ranking #2,611 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Shmiel, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a man or boy named Shmiel is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Shmiel can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Shmiel. 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 Shmiel living in one state or another. (If your name is Shmiel 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 Shmiel 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 0.00460% of all male residents are called Shmiel – that’s just one in 21,748! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 587 men going by that name. So, if your name is Shmiel, 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 Shmiel 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 Shmiel 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 Shmiel, you can simply say:
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Mouse
Igloo
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Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Shmiel sounds like this:
