Aaniyah is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Aaniyah is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Aaniyah. In the SmartGenius ranking, Aaniyah is #2,920 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 Aaniyah.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Aaniyah 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 Aaniyah is registered in 16 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Aaniyah live in Georgia, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 64,362 would turn around if you called the name Aaniyah across Georgia.
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 seven letters, the name Aaniyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 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 Aaniyah 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 Aaniyah, you can simply say:
Apple
Apple
Nut
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aaniyah
Aaniyah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
A
N
I
Y
A
H
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.
A
A
N
I
Y
A
H
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. Aaniyah sounds like this:
