Suleiman is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Suleiman is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Suleiman. In the SmartGenius ranking, Suleiman is #2,277 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 Suleiman.
The odds of having a man or boy named Suleiman in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Suleiman is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan or Minnesota. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Suleiman live in Texas, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 238,935 men and boys in Texas for their name before you meet one who answers with Suleiman.
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 Suleiman 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 Suleiman 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 Suleiman, you can simply say:
Sun
Unicorn
Lion
Elephant
Igloo
Mouse
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Suleiman
Suleiman
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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U
L
E
I
M
A
N
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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U
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M
A
N
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. Suleiman sounds like this:
