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The first name 
Cleopatra

Cleopatra is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Cleopatra meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Cleopatra is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Cleopatra. In the SmartGenius ranking, Cleopatra is #4,085 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 Cleopatra.

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

Cleopatra -
a special name with a long history

Cleopatra is not one of the particularly popular names, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1961, where the name Cleopatra was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Cleopatra and were born in the USA in 1961 please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the last century, Cleopatra even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1910, it ranked on position 990 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Cleopatra was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Happy Birthday - 49 girls named Cleopatra celebrate their second birthday this year

Even though the popularity of the name Cleopatra has fluctuated in the past and there were years when the name was almost not chosen at all by expectant parents, it has without question arrived in the 21st century. In 2022, the name was given a remarkable 49 times by young parents to their newborn daughters and thus landed at #2,905 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular girls' names. Nevertheless, the name is still so rare that the 49 girls named Cleopatra, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is most likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children who turn around when someone calls 'Cleopatra'.

Cleopatra -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Cleopatra 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 Cleopatra is registered in 11 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Louisiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Cleopatra live in Virginia, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 127,897 would turn around if you called the name Cleopatra across Virginia.

Cleopatra has 9 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 nine letters, the name Cleopatra 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 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Cleopatra

If your name is Cleopatra 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 Cleopatra

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

Cat

Lion

Elephant

Orange

Pig

Apple

Tiger

Rocket

Apple

This is how the name Cleopatra 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 Cleopatra in Braille?

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

Cleopatra

Cleopatra

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

C
L
E
O
P
A
T
R
A

Have you ever waved the name Cleopatra

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
L
E
O
P
A
T
R
A

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. Cleopatra sounds like this: