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The first name 
Texas

Texas is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.

Texas is a very rare first name!

At least in the US, the name Texas is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Texas each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Texas will meet someone with the same name. So, Texas is a very special name!

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

Texas -
swimming against the tide

If your name is Texas your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Texas never ranked higher than position 1,612 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their newborn Texas. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1881 to choose 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 Texas because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Texas was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

2022 - looking for Texas?

As in the last century, Texas still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 14 times in the entire U.S. So, a Texas from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.

Texas has 5 letters 
and begins with a T

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for given names. Because: 6.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A, J and K.

With five letters, the name Texas is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.

This means that with 6.3% of all first names that begin with an S, this initial letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Texas

If your name is Texas 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 Texas

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

Tiger

Elephant

Xylophone

Apple

Sun

This is how the name Texas 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 Texas in Braille?

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

Texas

Texas

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

T
E
X
A
S

Have you ever waved the name Texas

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
E
X
A
S

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. Texas sounds like this: