Caia is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Caia is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Caia. In the SmartGenius ranking, Caia is #2,398 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Caia.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Caia are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Caia is registered in 11 states, among which are California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey or New York. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Caia live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 142,028 would turn around if you called the name Caia across California.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Caia 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 with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Caia 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 Caia, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Caia
Caia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
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.
C
A
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. Caia sounds like this:
