Stirling is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Stirling in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Stirling in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Stirling by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Stirling ranks at #4,661. That means there are 4,660 more common boys 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 Stirling.
If your name is Stirling your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Stirling has never ranked higher than position 1,558 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Stirling for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1942 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Stirling because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Stirling was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Stirling is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 12 times in the entire USA. So a Stirling of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
Meeting a man or boy named Stirling is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Stirling can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Stirling. 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 Stirling living in one state or another. (If your name is Stirling 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 Stirling is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00004% of all male residents are called Stirling – that’s just one in 2,721,946! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 6 men going by that name. So, if your name is Stirling, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
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 eight letters, the name Stirling 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.
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 Stirling 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 Stirling, you can simply say:
Sun
Tiger
Igloo
Rocket
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Goat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Stirling
Stirling
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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I
R
L
I
N
G
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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T
I
R
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G
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. Stirling sounds like this:
