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The first name 
Silo

Silo is a first name for boys.

Silo – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Silo 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 boy in 100,000 has been named Silo. That means that a boy named Silo is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his 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 Silo.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Silo

Silo -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Silo is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Silo can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Silo. 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 Silo living in one state or another. (If your name is Silo 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 Silo is in Texas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00004% of all male residents are called Silo – that’s just one in 2,437,136! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Silo, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Silo has 4 letters 
and begins with an S

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 four letters, the name Silo 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.

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.

Other names with 
S, i, l and o

If you take all the letters in the name Silo – S, i, l and o – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Olis or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Silo

If your name is Silo 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...

This is how you spell the name Silo

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Silo, you can simply say:

Sun

Igloo

Lion

Orange

This is how the name Silo is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Silo in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Silo

Silo

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Silo

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Silo is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

S
I
L
O

Have you ever waved the name Silo

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
I
L
O

Beeping like crazy...

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. Silo sounds like this: