Originally a Welsh surname, Vaughn has been a first name for a long time. the Welsh surname is a shortened form of Vaughan which developed from the word ‘bychan’ for ‘little’.
Vaughn is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Vaughn isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Vaughn ranks 894. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Vaughn. In the entire USA, approximately 14,649 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Vaughn. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
Originally a Welsh surname, Vaughn has been a first name for a long time. the Welsh surname is a shortened form of Vaughan which developed from the word ‘bychan’ for ‘little’.
The Welsh surname... has the equivalents Little in English and Bihan, a Breton surname.
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 six letters, the name Vaughn 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.
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.
If your name is Vaughn 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 Vaughn, you can simply say:
Violin
Apple
Unicorn
Goat
Hat
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vaughn
Vaughn
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Vaughn sounds like this: