Sian is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Sian in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sian in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sian by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sian ranks at #8,384. That means there are 8,383 more common girls 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 Sian.
In fact, the name Sian 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), Sian seemed more popular than ever in 1974, when 28 parents named their daughters Sian. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,410, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Sian, 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 Sian was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Sian a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 4,797, for a total of 23 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 Sian seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Sian is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 53 Americans in total bear this name. And these 53 women are located in only three states: California, New York and Texas (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 Sian 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 Sian in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 355,069 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Sian.
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 four letters, the name Sian is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Sian 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 Sian, you can simply say:
Sun
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Apple
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sian
Sian
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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I
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. Sian sounds like this:
