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The first name 
Xanthus

Xanthus is a male first name.

Xanthus – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Xanthus has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Xanthus. That means that a boy named Xanthus is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life.

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

Xanthus 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 the rarest initial for boys' names in the US. Only 0.4% of all common boys' names begin with this letter. Incidentally, the second-rarest first letter of boys' names is U, and the most common first letters are J and A.

With seven letters, the name Xanthus 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 0.4% of all boys' names starting with X, all other letters occur on average nearly nine times as often. Moreover, of the comparatively few boys' names that start with X, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Xavier.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Xanthus

If your name is Xanthus 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 Xanthus

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

Xylophone

Apple

Nut

Tiger

Hat

Unicorn

Sun

This is how the name Xanthus 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 Xanthus in Braille?

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

Xanthus

Xanthus

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

X
A
N
T
H
U
S

Have you ever waved the name Xanthus

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
T
H
U
S

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. Xanthus sounds like this: