Townsend is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Townsend in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Townsend in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Townsend by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Townsend ranks at #4,147. That means there are 4,146 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 Townsend.
If your name is Townsend your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Townsend has never ranked higher than position 1,727 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Townsend for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1934 to give 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 Townsend because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Townsend was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Townsend is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 27 times in the entire USA. So a Townsend of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
Meeting a man or boy named Townsend is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Townsend can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Townsend. 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 Townsend living in one state or another. (If your name is Townsend 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 Townsend is in Texas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00015% of all male residents are called Townsend – that’s just one in 676,982! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 18 men going by that name. So, if your name is Townsend, 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 eight letters, the name Townsend 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.
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 Townsend 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 Townsend, you can simply say:
Tiger
Orange
Windmill
Nut
Sun
Elephant
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Townsend
Townsend
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
O
W
N
S
E
N
D
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
O
W
N
S
E
N
D
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. Townsend sounds like this:
