Snow is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Snow is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Snow. In the SmartGenius ranking, Snow is #2,658 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Snow.
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 Snow. Girls named Snow have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,244 Snow ranked higher than ever in 1894. By comparison, there have been 89 years in which the first name Snow 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 1997. In general, parents name their daughters Snow only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Snow was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Snow continues to be a precious jewel: 65 newborns were named Snow that year, ranking #2,374 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Snow, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Snow in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 138 women and girls named Snow, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 138 women and girls named Snow live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan and New York. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Snow. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Snow lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Snow and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Snow relative to its female population is Arizona. And even there, only one in 248,026 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Snow.
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 Snow 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 Snow 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 Snow, you can simply say:
Sun
Nut
Orange
Windmill
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Snow
Snow
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
N
O
W
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
N
O
W
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. Snow sounds like this:
