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The first name 
Xaniyah

Xaniyah is a first name for girls.

Xaniyah – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Xaniyah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Xaniyah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Xaniyah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Xaniyah ranks at #8,923. That means there are 8,922 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Xaniyah

Xaniyah has 7 letters 
and begins with an X

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter X is very rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.3% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. Only the letter U is even rarer as the first letter of girls' names. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.

With seven letters, the name Xaniyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 with 0.3% of all girls' names starting with an X, all other letters occur on average more than ten times as often as the X. Moreover, of the comparatively few girls' names that start with X, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Ximena.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Xaniyah

If your name is Xaniyah 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...

This is how you spell the name Xaniyah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Xaniyah, you can simply say:

Xylophone

Apple

Nut

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Xaniyah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Xaniyah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Xaniyah

Xaniyah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Xaniyah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Xaniyah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

X
A
N
I
Y
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Xaniyah

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.

X
A
N
I
Y
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

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. Xaniyah sounds like this: