Zeke is a short form of the English name Ezekiel, which developed from the Hebrew Yechezqel. It stands for ‘God wil strenghten’ and is a name of the Old Testament.
Zeke is a first name for boys.
The name Zeke isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Zeke ranks 640. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Zeke. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Zeke.
Zeke is a short form of the English name Ezekiel, which developed from the Hebrew Yechezqel. It stands for ‘God wil strenghten’ and is a name of the Old Testament.
Zeke has been... around as a first name since at least the 1880s, but only became more common in the 2010s.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.4% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Z. 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 four letters, the name Zeke 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.
Therefore: As 2.4% of all boys' names begin with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with Z, Zachary is the most common.
If your name is Zeke 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 Zeke, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zeke
Zeke
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Zeke sounds like this: