Cynthea is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Cynthea 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 Cynthea. That means that a girl named Cynthea is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.
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 to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Cynthea. Girls named Cynthea have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,798 Cynthea ranked higher than ever in 1953. By comparison, there have been 108 years in which the first name Cynthea 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 Cynthea only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cynthea was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 Cynthea 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.
If your name is Cynthea 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 Cynthea, you can simply say:
Cat
Yoyo
Nut
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cynthea
Cynthea
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
Y
N
T
H
E
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
Y
N
T
H
E
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. Cynthea sounds like this:
