Silvester is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Silvester 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 Silvester. That means that a boy named Silvester 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 Silvester.
The first name Silvester is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 104 Americans in total bear this name. And these 104 men are located in only four states: Arkansas, California, Mississippi and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Silvester 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 boys and men named Silvester in relation to it’s male population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 156,227 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Silvester present.
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 nine letters, the name Silvester is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Silvester 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 Silvester, you can simply say:
Sun
Igloo
Lion
Violin
Elephant
Sun
Tiger
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Silvester
Silvester
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. Silvester sounds like this:
