Aela is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Aela 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 Aela. In the SmartGenius ranking, Aela is #3,274 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 Aela.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Aela in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 80 women and girls named Aela, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 80 women and girls named Aela live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia and New York. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Aela. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Aela lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Aela and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Aela relative to its female population is Arizona. And even there, only one in 347,237 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Aela.
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 Aela 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 Aela 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 Aela, you can simply say:
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aela
Aela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
E
L
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.
A
E
L
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. Aela sounds like this:
