Xerxes is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Xerxes in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Xerxes in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Xerxes by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Xerxes ranks at #5,400. That means there are 5,399 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
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 six letters, the name Xerxes 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 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.
If your name is Xerxes 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 Xerxes, you can simply say:
Xylophone
Elephant
Rocket
Xylophone
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Xerxes
Xerxes
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
X
E
R
X
E
S
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
E
R
X
E
S
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. Xerxes sounds like this:
