Ziggy is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ziggy is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 boys have been named Ziggy. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ziggy is #1,691 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ziggy.
The odds of having a man or boy named Ziggy in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Ziggy is registered in 15 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Hawaii. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Ziggy live in California, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 89,244 men and boys in California for their name before you meet one who answers with Ziggy.
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 five letters, the name Ziggy is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Ziggy 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 Ziggy, you can simply say:
Zebra
Igloo
Goat
Goat
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ziggy
Ziggy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
I
G
G
Y
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.
Z
I
G
G
Y
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. Ziggy sounds like this:
