Chela is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Chela 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 Chela. That means that a girl named Chela 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 Chela.
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 be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Chela. Girls named Chela have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,418 Chela ranked higher than ever before in 1985. By comparison, there have been 100 years in which the first name Chela 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 Chela only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Chela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Chela is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 53 Americans in total bear this name. And these 53 women are located in only four states: California, North Carolina, South Carolina and 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 Chela 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 Chela in relation to it’s female population is Virginia. And yet even there, only one in 127,897 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Chela.
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 five letters, the name Chela 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.
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 Chela 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 Chela, you can simply say:
Cat
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Chela
Chela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
H
E
L
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
H
E
L
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. Chela sounds like this:
