Almira is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Almira in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Almira in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Almira by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Almira ranks at #7,773. That means there are 7,772 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 Almira.
Almira is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1996, where the name Almira was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Almira and were born in the USA in 1996, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Almira even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1883, it ranked on position 478 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Almira was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Almira has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 14 times and thus landed on position 6,652 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 14 girls with the name Almira, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The first name Almira is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 32 Americans in total bear this name. And these 32 women are located in only four states: California, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Almira and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Almira in relation to it’s female population is Wisconsin. And yet even there, only one in 276,533 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Almira.
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 Almira 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 Almira 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 Almira, you can simply say:
Apple
Lion
Mouse
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Almira
Almira
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
L
M
I
R
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
M
I
R
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. Almira sounds like this:
