Theseus is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Theseus is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Theseus. In the SmartGenius ranking, Theseus is #3,012 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 Theseus.
The first name Theseus is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 83 Americans in total bear this name. And these 83 men are located in only three states: Arizona, California and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Theseus and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Theseus in relation to it’s male population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 290,135 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Theseus present.
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 seven letters, the name Theseus has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Theseus 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 Theseus, you can simply say:
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Sun
Elephant
Unicorn
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Theseus
Theseus
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
H
E
S
E
U
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
H
E
S
E
U
S
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. Theseus sounds like this:
