Africa is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Africa in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Africa in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Africa by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Africa ranks at #8,810. That means there are 8,809 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 Africa.
In fact, the name Africa wasn't vogue in the 19th century, but between 1900 and 1975 young parents changed that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Africa seemed more popular than ever in 1972, when 76 parents named their daughters Africa. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,246, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Africa, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Africa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Africa a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 7,858, for a total of 11 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for a many years. As Africa seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Africa 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 Africa is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Louisiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Africa live in Georgia, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 115,563 would turn around if you called the name Africa 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 six letters, the name Africa 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 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 Africa 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 Africa, you can simply say:
Apple
Fox
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Africa
Africa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
F
R
I
C
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
F
R
I
C
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. Africa sounds like this:
