Delta is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Delta is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Delta. In the SmartGenius ranking, Delta is #2,346 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Delta.
You may not know anyone named Delta, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 27 states are home to women and girls named Delta. (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 Delta living in one state or another. If your name is Delta 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 Louisiana, which has the most people named Delta relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,359 women and girls their names before you hear Delta as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Delta 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 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Delta 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 Delta, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Elephant
Lion
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Delta
Delta
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
E
L
T
A
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.
D
E
L
T
A
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. Delta sounds like this:
