Ellena is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ellena 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 Ellena. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ellena is #2,518 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 Ellena.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Ellena in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 401 women and girls named Ellena, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 401 women and girls named Ellena live in no more than 8 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida and New York. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Ellena. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women 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 Ellena lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Ellena 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 girls and women named Ellena relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 68,408 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ellena.
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 six letters, the name Ellena 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 3.9%, 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 Ellena 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 Ellena, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ellena
Ellena
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
L
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N
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.
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L
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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. Ellena sounds like this:
