Arla is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Arla in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Arla in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Arla by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Arla ranks at #6,870. That means there are 6,869 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Arla.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Arla are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Arla is registered in 15 states, among which are California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas or Michigan. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Arla live in South Dakota, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 17,617 would turn around if you called the name Arla across South Dakota.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With four letters, the name Arla 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 if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Arla 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 Arla, 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.
Arla
Arla
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. Arla sounds like this: