Belma is a female first name.
Recently, the name Belma 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 Belma. That means that a girl named Belma 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 Belma.
If your name is Belma your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Belma never ranked higher than position 1,452 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Belma. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1895 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Belma because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Belma was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Belma still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Belma who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Belma, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in New York and Texas. 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 Belma living in one state or another (if your name is Belma and you live outside of New York and Texas, 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 560,276 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Belma. So, if your name is Belma it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Belma already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: 3.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a B. This means that B as the first letter for girls' names is neither particularly common nor rare. The most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Belma is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
Thus, if 3.2% of all girls’ names start with a B, this initial letter is slightly less common than all other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with B that are quite common in the U.S., the most common at present is Barbara.
If your name is Belma 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 Belma, you can simply say:
Butterfly
Elephant
Lion
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Belma
Belma
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
B
E
L
M
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.
B
E
L
M
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. Belma sounds like this:
