Solstice is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Solstice in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Solstice in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Solstice by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Solstice ranks at #9,127. That means there are 9,126 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 Solstice.
Meeting a woman or girl named Solstice is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Solstice can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Solstice. 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 women and girls called Solstice living in one state or another (if your name is Solstice 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 Solstice is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all female residents are named Solstice – that’s just one in 2,982,583! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 women with that name. So, if your name is Solstice, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
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 eight letters, the name Solstice is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. 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.
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 Solstice 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 Solstice, you can simply say:
Sun
Orange
Lion
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Solstice
Solstice
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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T
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C
E
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. Solstice sounds like this:
