Elvina is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Elvina in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Elvina in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Elvina by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Elvina ranks at #9,188. That means there are 9,187 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 Elvina.
Elvina is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2007, where the name Elvina was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Elvina and were born in the USA in 2007, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Elvina even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1881, it ranked on position 554 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elvina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Elvina has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 5 times and thus landed on position 13,280 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 5 girls with the name Elvina, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Elvina 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 Elvina is registered in 10 states, among which are California, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana or Minnesota. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Elvina live in Louisiana, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 10,299 would turn around if you called the name Elvina across Louisiana.
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 Elvina 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 Elvina 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 Elvina, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Violin
Igloo
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elvina
Elvina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Elvina sounds like this: