Elah is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Elah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Elah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Elah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Elah ranks at #5,678. That means there are 5,677 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 Elah.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Elah, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Florida. 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 Elah living in one state or another (if your name is Elah and you live outside of California and Florida, 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 409,186 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Elah. So, if your name is Elah it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Elah already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% 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, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With four letters, the name Elah is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Elah 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 Elah, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elah
Elah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
A
H
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.
E
L
A
H
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. Elah sounds like this:
