Vestal is a first name for all genders, most often used for boys.
At least in the US, the name Vestal is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Vestal each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Vestal will meet someone with the same name. So, Vestal is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Vestal. Kids called Vestal have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,922 Vestal ranked higher than ever in 1907. By comparison, there have been 103 years in which the first name Vestal has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their babies Vestal only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Vestal you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Vestal was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 six letters, the name Vestal 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 1.5% 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 Vestal 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 Vestal, you can simply say:
Violin
Elephant
Sun
Tiger
Apple
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vestal
Vestal
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
E
S
T
A
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
S
T
A
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. Vestal sounds like this:
