Dua is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Dua is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Dua. In the SmartGenius ranking, Dua is #2,470 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 Dua.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Dua 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 Dua is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois or Maryland. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Dua live in New York, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 56,289 would turn around if you called the name Dua across New York.
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 only three letters, the name Dua is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 Dua 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 Dua, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Unicorn
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Dua
Dua
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
U
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
U
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. Dua sounds like this:
