Electra is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Electra in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Electra in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Electra by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Electra ranks at #6,813. That means there are 6,812 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 Electra.
If your name is Electra your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Electra never ranked higher than position 1,915 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Electra. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1910 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Electra because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Electra was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Electra still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 16 times in the entire U.S. So, a Electra from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Electra, 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 Electra living in one state or another (if your name is Electra 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 677,860 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Electra. So, if your name is Electra it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Electra 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 seven letters, the name Electra 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.
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 Electra 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 Electra, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Elephant
Cat
Tiger
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Electra
Electra
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
E
C
T
R
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.
E
L
E
C
T
R
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. Electra sounds like this:
