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The first name 
Tulip

Tulip is a first name for girls.

Tulip – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Tulip in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Tulip in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Tulip by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Tulip ranks at #5,712. That means there are 5,711 more common girls 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 Tulip.

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

Tulip -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Tulip is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Tulip can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Tulip. 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 women and girls called Tulip living in one state or another (if your name is Tulip 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 Tulip is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00014% of all female residents are named Tulip – that’s just one in 700,345! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 16 women with that name. So, if your name is Tulip, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Tulip 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 girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.

With five letters, the name Tulip 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.

With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Tulip

If your name is Tulip 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 Tulip

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

Tiger

Unicorn

Lion

Igloo

Pig

This is how the name Tulip 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 Tulip in Braille?

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

Tulip

Tulip

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

T
U
L
I
P

Have you ever waved the name Tulip

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
U
L
I
P

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. Tulip sounds like this: