Dorla is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Dorla 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 Dorla. That means that a girl named Dorla 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 Dorla.
Is the name Dorla a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 171 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1930 – at that time, it ranked #490. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Dorla is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Dorla, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Dorla was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Dorla born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Dorla born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Dorla 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 Dorla is registered in 16 states, among which are California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana or Iowa. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Dorla live in Nebraska, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 69,204 would turn around if you called the name Dorla across Nebraska.
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 five letters, the name Dorla is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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 Dorla 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 Dorla, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Orange
Rocket
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dorla
Dorla
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
O
R
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
O
R
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. Dorla sounds like this:
