Velvet is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Velvet in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Velvet in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Velvet by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Velvet ranks at #8,509. That means there are 8,508 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 Velvet.
You may not know anyone named Velvet, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 25 states are home to women and girls named Velvet. (To be fair, 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 entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Velvet living in one state or another. If your name is Velvet and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In North Carolina, which has the most people named Velvet relative to the population, you still have to ask 36,685 women and girls their names before you hear Velvet as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Velvet 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.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Velvet 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 Velvet, you can simply say:
Violin
Elephant
Lion
Violin
Elephant
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Velvet
Velvet
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
E
L
V
E
T
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
V
E
T
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. Velvet sounds like this:
