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The first name 
Camiyah

Camiyah is a female first name.

When two girls called Camiyah meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Camiyah is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Camiyah. In the SmartGenius ranking, Camiyah is #2,913 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 Camiyah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Camiyah

Camiyah -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Camiyah in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 161 women and girls named Camiyah, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 161 women and girls named Camiyah live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia and Illinois. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Camiyah. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Camiyah lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Camiyah and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Camiyah relative to its female population is Florida. And even there, only one in 132,709 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Camiyah.

Camiyah has 7 letters 
and begins with a C

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 seven letters, the name Camiyah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 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.

Other names with 
C, a, m, i, y, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Camiyah – C, a, m, i, y, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Camyiah or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Camiyah

If your name is Camiyah 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...

This is how you spell the name Camiyah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Camiyah, you can simply say:

Cat

Apple

Mouse

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Camiyah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Camiyah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Camiyah

Camiyah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Camiyah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Camiyah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
A
M
I
Y
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Camiyah

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
M
I
Y
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

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. Camiyah sounds like this: