Triton is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Triton is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 boys have been named Triton. In the SmartGenius ranking, Triton is #1,800 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 Triton.
In fact, the name Triton did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Triton seemed to be more popular than ever in 2014. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,588, 88 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Triton, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Triton was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Triton a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,293 - with a total of 52 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of having a man or boy named Triton 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 Triton is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana or Michigan. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Triton live in Hawaii, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 15,091 men and boys in Hawaii for their name before you meet one who answers with Triton.
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 Triton 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 Triton 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 Triton, you can simply say:
Tiger
Rocket
Igloo
Tiger
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Triton
Triton
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
T
R
I
T
O
N
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
R
I
T
O
N
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. Triton sounds like this:
