Aretta is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Aretta has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Aretta. That means that a girl named Aretta is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Aretta.
Is the name Aretta a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 15 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1908 – at that time, it ranked #971. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Aretta is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Aretta, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Aretta was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Aretta born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Aretta born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The first name Aretta is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 107 Americans in total bear this name. And these 107 women are located in only four states: Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas and West Virginia (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 Aretta 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 Aretta in relation to it’s female population is West Virginia. And yet even there, only one in 16,956 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Aretta.
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 Aretta 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 Aretta 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 Aretta, you can simply say:
Apple
Rocket
Elephant
Tiger
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Aretta
Aretta
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
R
E
T
T
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
E
T
T
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. Aretta sounds like this:
