Vel is a first name for all genders. The name is given as well to boys and to girls.
At least in the US, the name Vel is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Vel each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Vel will meet someone with the same name. So, Vel is a very special name!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as a first letter for given names: only 1.5% of all common first names in the US begin with a V. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With only three letters, the name Vel is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 1.5% of all first names begin with a V, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Vel 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 Vel, you can simply say:
Violin
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vel
Vel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
E
L
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
E
L
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. Vel sounds like this:
