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The first name 
Tully

Tully is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.

Tully – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Tully in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Tully in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Tully by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Tully ranks at #6,007. That means there are 6,006 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 Tully.

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

Tully -
at home in Arizona and Texas

Meeting a man or boy named Tully is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Tully can be found in only two: Arizona and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Tully. 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 Tully living in one state or another. (If your name is Tully and you live outside of Arizona or Texas, 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 Tully is in Arizona, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Arizona, only 0.00025% of all male residents are called Tully – that’s just one in 405,101! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 16 men going by that name. So, if your name is Tully, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Tully 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 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 five letters, the name Tully 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 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Tully

If your name is Tully 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 Tully

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

Tiger

Unicorn

Lion

Lion

Yoyo

This is how the name Tully 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 Tully in Braille?

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

Tully

Tully

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

T
U
L
L
Y

Have you ever waved the name Tully

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
L
Y

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. Tully sounds like this: