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The first name 
Varun

Varun is a male first name.

When two boys called Varun meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Varun is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 boys have been named Varun. In the SmartGenius ranking, Varun is #2,440 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 Varun.

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

Varun -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Varun 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), Varun seemed to be more popular than ever in 2004. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,031, 145 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Varun, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Varun was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Varun in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Varun a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #3,845 - with a total of 23 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.

Varun -
quite rare in all states

The odds of having a man or boy named Varun 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 Varun is registered in 14 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Maryland. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Varun live in New Jersey, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 19,678 men and boys in New Jersey for their name before you meet one who answers with Varun.

Varun has 5 letters 
and begins with a V

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The V is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.3% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a V. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With five letters, the name Varun 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.

That means that if 1.3% of all boys' names start with a V, all other letters occur on average three times as often as the V. Nevertheless, individual boys' names with V are quite popular, the most common currently being Vincent.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Varun

If your name is Varun 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 Varun

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

Violin

Apple

Rocket

Unicorn

Nut

This is how the name Varun 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 Varun in Braille?

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

Varun

Varun

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

V
A
R
U
N

Have you ever waved the name Varun

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.

V
A
R
U
N

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. Varun sounds like this: