As a first name, America became known in the US during the 19th century. It had its most popular phase in the early 2000s. From the 1910s to the 1930s, America was in rare cases also given to boys.
America is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
America is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,062 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,061 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named America.
As a first name, America became known in the US during the 19th century. It had its most popular phase in the early 2000s. From the 1910s to the 1930s, America was in rare cases also given to boys.
The word 'America' was... created by a German cartographer in 1507, who named the land after the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter America annualy. This means that there have been girls named America 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 America have consistently been special. Since 2000, however, the name has experienced a certain popularity: in 2002 it holds its present record at #387 in the ranking of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name America was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
America has never been ranked higher than #387. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,922 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 89 girls named America were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young America were born, there have been 98 newborns who were given this name.
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 America 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 America 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 America, you can simply say:
Apple
Mouse
Elephant
Rocket
Igloo
Cat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
America
America
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
M
E
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
M
E
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. America sounds like this:
