Thelonious is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Thelonious in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Thelonious in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Thelonious by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Thelonious ranks at #4,455. That means there are 4,454 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 Thelonious.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Thelonious. Boys named Thelonious have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,180 Thelonious ranked higher than ever in 1965. By comparison, there have been 104 years in which the first name Thelonious has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1997. In general, parents name their sons Thelonious only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Thelonious was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Thelonious continues to be a precious jewel: 17 newborns were named Thelonious that year, ranking #4,674 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Thelonious, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a man or boy named Thelonious is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Thelonious can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Thelonious. 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 Thelonious living in one state or another. (If your name is Thelonious 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 Thelonious 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 0.00017% of all male residents are called Thelonious – that’s just one in 604,877! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 27 men going by that name. So, if your name is Thelonious, 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 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 ten letters, the name Thelonious is obviously a particularly long first name used in the U.S.: only 1.8% of all common first names have exactly ten letters. 98% of all first names are shorter, while only 0.6% of all boys’ and girls’ names need more than ten letters. 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.
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 Thelonious 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 Thelonious, you can simply say:
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Orange
Nut
Igloo
Orange
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Thelonious
Thelonious
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
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S
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
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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. Thelonious sounds like this:
