Unique is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
Unique is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,488 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,487 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Unique.
Unique is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Unique - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 680 in 1996. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Unique really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Unique was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
123 babies were named Unique in 2022 - that's 1 in 1,497,292 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Unique ranked 1,527 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Unique, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 31 states are home to women and girls named Unique. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Unique living in one state or another. If your name is Unique and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New Mexico, which has the most people named Unique relative to the population, you still have to ask 11,625 women and girls their names before you hear Unique as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter U is the rarest initial for girls' names in the US. Only 0.2% of all common girls' names begin with this letter. Incidentally, the second-rarest first letter of girls' names is X, and the most common first letters are A and S.
With six letters, the name Unique 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 0.2% of all girls' names starting with an X, all other letters occur on average nearly twenty times as often as the U. Moreover, of the comparatively few girls' names that start with X, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Ursula.
If your name is Unique 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 Unique, you can simply say:
Unicorn
Nut
Igloo
Queen
Unicorn
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Unique
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Unique sounds like this:
