Takoda is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Takoda 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 Takoda. In the SmartGenius ranking, Takoda is #2,208 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 Takoda.
The odds of having a man or boy named Takoda 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 Takoda is registered in 18 states, among which are California, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas or Kentucky. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Takoda live in Oregon, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 56,507 men and boys in Oregon for their name before you meet one who answers with Takoda.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names. That’s because 6.3% 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 six letters, the name Takoda is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.
With 6.3% of all boys' names that begin with the letter T, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Thomas is the boys’ name starting with T, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Takoda 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 Takoda, you can simply say:
Tiger
Apple
Koala
Orange
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Takoda
Takoda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
A
K
O
D
A
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.
T
A
K
O
D
A
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. Takoda sounds like this:
