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The first name 
Eligah

Eligah is a first name for boys.

Eligah – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Eligah 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 boy in 100,000 has been named Eligah. That means that a boy named Eligah is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his 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 Eligah.

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

Eligah -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Eligah. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 369 Americans who bear this name. And these 369 men and boys named Eligah live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Louisiana. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Eligah lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Eligah and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Eligah relative to its male population is Mississippi. And even there, only one male in 16,259 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Eligah.

Eligah has 6 letters 
and begins with an E

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 boys' names: 3.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.

With six letters, the name Eligah 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.

That means that with 3.8%, E as the first letter in boys' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the boys' names that start with an E, Edward is the most common.

Other names with 
E, l, i, g, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Eligah – E, l, i, g, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Aleigh or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Eligah

If your name is Eligah 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 Eligah

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

Elephant

Lion

Igloo

Goat

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Eligah 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 Eligah in Braille?

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

Eligah

Eligah

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

E
L
I
G
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Eligah

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
I
G
A
H

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. Eligah sounds like this: