Dahlila is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Dahlila in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Dahlila in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Dahlila by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Dahlila ranks at #7,424. That means there are 7,423 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Dahlila.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Dahlila, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Dahlila living in one state or another (if your name is Dahlila and you live outside of California and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 307,230 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Dahlila. So, if your name is Dahlila it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Dahlila already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all 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 Dahlila 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.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Dahlila 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 Dahlila, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Hat
Lion
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dahlila
Dahlila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
H
L
I
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.
D
A
H
L
I
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. Dahlila sounds like this:
