Australia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Recently, the name Australia 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 Australia. That means that a girl named Australia is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.
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 Australia. Girls named Australia have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,299 Australia ranked higher than ever in 1910. By comparison, there have been 96 years in which the first name Australia 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Australia only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Australia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 nine letters, the name Australia is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Australia 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 Australia, you can simply say:
Apple
Unicorn
Sun
Tiger
Rocket
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Australia
Australia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
U
S
T
R
A
L
I
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
U
S
T
R
A
L
I
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. Australia sounds like this:
