Xian is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Xian is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Xian each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Xian will meet someone with the same name. So, Xian is a very special name!
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 given names: only 0.3% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the letter U is even rarer as initial of first names. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A and J.
With four letters, the name Xian is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 with 0.3% of all first names starting with X, all other letters occur on average more than twelve times as often.
If your name is Xian 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 Xian, you can simply say:
Xylophone
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Xian
Xian
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
X
I
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.
X
I
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. Xian sounds like this:
