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The first name 
Sparkle

Sparkle is a female first name.

Sparkle – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Sparkle in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sparkle in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sparkle by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sparkle ranks at #9,145. That means there are 9,144 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 Sparkle.

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

Sparkle -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Sparkle are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Sparkle is registered in 15 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Sparkle live in Illinois, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 55,743 would turn around if you called the name Sparkle across Illinois.

Sparkle has 7 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 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 seven letters, the name Sparkle has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.

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.

Other names with 
S, p, a, r, k, l and e

If you take all the letters in the name Sparkle – S, p, a, r, k, l and e – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Sparkel.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Sparkle

If your name is Sparkle 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 Sparkle

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

Sun

Pig

Apple

Rocket

Koala

Lion

Elephant

This is how the name Sparkle 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 Sparkle in Braille?

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

Sparkle

Sparkle

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

S
P
A
R
K
L
E

Have you ever waved the name Sparkle

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
P
A
R
K
L
E

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. Sparkle sounds like this: