Viyan is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Viyan is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Viyan. In the SmartGenius ranking, Viyan is #3,284 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 Viyan.
The first name Viyan is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 73 Americans in total bear this name. And these 73 men are located in only four states: California, Maryland, New Jersey and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Viyan and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Viyan in relation to it’s male population is New Jersey. And yet even there, only one in 270,857 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Viyan present.
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 Viyan 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.
If your name is Viyan 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 Viyan, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Viyan
Viyan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
I
Y
A
N
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
I
Y
A
N
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. Viyan sounds like this:
