Alida is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Alida is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Alida. In the SmartGenius ranking, Alida is #4,210 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 Alida.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Alida annualy. This means that there have been girls named Alida who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Alida have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Alida even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #400 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Alida was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Alida has never been ranked higher than #400. In 2022, she rivaled the 4,545 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 25 girls named Alida were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Alida were born, there have been 34 newborns who received this name.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Alida 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 Alida is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana or Massachusetts. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Alida live in New York, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 24,809 would turn around if you called the name Alida across New York.
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 five letters, the name Alida 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.
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 Alida 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 Alida, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Alida
Alida
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
I
D
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
L
I
D
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. Alida sounds like this:
