Arda is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Arda is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Arda each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Arda will meet someone with the same name. So, Arda is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Arda. Children named Arda have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 2,096 Arda ranked higher than ever in 1889. By comparison, there have been 81 years in which the first name Arda has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2001. In general, parents name their newborns Arda only once in a blue moon, so people with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Arda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Arda continues to be a precious jewel: 19 newborns were named Arda that year, ranking #10,610 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Arda, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
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 four letters, the name Arda is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Arda 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 Arda, you can simply say:
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Arda
Arda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
R
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
R
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. Arda sounds like this:
