Ara is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
Few children have been named Ara in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 children are currently called Ara. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Ara at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Ara is number *** on the list of most common first names.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Ara annualy. This means that there have been children named Ara 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 people named Ara have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Ara even more than any other time: in 1901, it holds its present record of #879 in the ranking of the most popular first names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ara was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Ara has never been ranked higher than #879. In 2022, it rivaled the 3,907 names that preceded it on the list. In total, 78 children named Ara were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Ara were born, there have been 23 newborns who received 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 given names. 10.3% of all common first names in the US start with this letter. The second most common initial letter in first names is J.
With only three letters, the name Ara is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 10.3% of all first names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average.
If your name is Ara 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 Ara, you can simply say:
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ara
Ara
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
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
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. Ara sounds like this:
