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The first name 
Damiya

Damiya is a female first name.

When two girls called Damiya meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Damiya 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 Damiya. In the SmartGenius ranking, Damiya is #3,672 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 Damiya.

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

Damiya -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Damiya 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 Damiya is registered in 11 states, among which are Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana or Maryland. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Damiya live in Illinois, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 189,217 would turn around if you called the name Damiya across Illinois.

Damiya has 6 letters 
and begins with a D

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 six letters, the name Damiya is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.

Other names with 
D, a, m, i, y and a

If you take all the letters in the name Damiya – D, a, m, i, y and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Damyia or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Damiya

If your name is Damiya 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 Damiya

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

Dinosaur

Apple

Mouse

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

This is how the name Damiya 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 Damiya in Braille?

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

Damiya

Damiya

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

D
A
M
I
Y
A

Have you ever waved the name Damiya

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
M
I
Y
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. Damiya sounds like this: