Anthea is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Anthea in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Anthea in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Anthea by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Anthea ranks at #8,509. That means there are 8,508 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 Anthea.
While Anthea is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1959, the name Anthea reached its highest popularity with #2,918 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Anthea. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Anthea.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Anthea was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 11 babies were born with the name Anthea. This puts the name in rank 7,858 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 13,475,627 newborns was named Anthea that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Anthea has been and remains marvelously unusual!
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Anthea, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Anthea living in one state or another (if your name is Anthea and you live outside of California and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 392,445 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Anthea. So, if your name is Anthea it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Anthea already makes you special.
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 Anthea 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 Anthea 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 Anthea, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Anthea
Anthea
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
N
T
H
E
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
N
T
H
E
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. Anthea sounds like this:
