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The first name 
Simcha

Simcha is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.

When two boys called Simcha meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Simcha is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Simcha. In the SmartGenius ranking, Simcha is #1,919 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 Simcha.

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

Simcha -
special from day one

In fact, the name Simcha hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Simcha wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1993, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,556, 51 parents chose it in 1993 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Simcha, 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 Simcha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Simcha - originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Simcha a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 1,769, for a total of 78 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Simcha seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.

Simcha -
at home in New Jersey and New York

Meeting a man or boy named Simcha is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Simcha can be found in only two: New Jersey and New York. No other state currently has residents named Simcha. 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 Simcha living in one state or another. (If your name is Simcha and you live outside of New Jersey or New York, 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 Simcha 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 0.00918% of all male residents are called Simcha – that’s just one in 10,893! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 1,470 men going by that name. So, if your name is Simcha, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Simcha has 6 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 six letters, the name Simcha 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.

Other names with 
S, i, m, c, h and a

If you take all the letters in the name Simcha – S, i, m, c, h and a – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Mischa.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Simcha

If your name is Simcha 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 Simcha

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

Sun

Igloo

Mouse

Cat

Hat

Apple

This is how the name Simcha 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 Simcha in Braille?

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

Simcha

Simcha

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

S
I
M
C
H
A

Have you ever waved the name Simcha

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
M
C
H
A

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. Simcha sounds like this: