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The first name 
Clotilde

Clotilde is a first name for girls.

Clotilde – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Clotilde 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 Clotilde. That means that a girl named Clotilde 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 Clotilde.

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

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

The first name Clotilde is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 180 Americans in total bear this name. And these 180 women are located in only five states: Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New York and Texas (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 Clotilde 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 Clotilde in relation to it’s female population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 90,367 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Clotilde.

Clotilde has 8 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 eight letters, the name Clotilde is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. 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 Clotilde

If your name is Clotilde 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 Clotilde

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

Cat

Lion

Orange

Tiger

Igloo

Lion

Dinosaur

Elephant

This is how the name Clotilde 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 Clotilde in Braille?

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

Clotilde

Clotilde

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

C
L
O
T
I
L
D
E

Have you ever waved the name Clotilde

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
O
T
I
L
D
E

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. Clotilde sounds like this: