Elwanda is a female first name.
Recently, the name Elwanda 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 girl in 100,000 has been named Elwanda. That means that a girl named Elwanda is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her 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 Elwanda.
Is the name Elwanda a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 98 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1921 – at that time, it ranked #701. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Elwanda is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Elwanda, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elwanda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Elwanda born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Elwanda born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Elwanda 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 543 women and girls named Elwanda, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 543 women and girls named Elwanda live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Elwanda. (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 Elwanda lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Elwanda 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 Elwanda relative to its female population is Arkansas. And even there, only one in 10,546 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Elwanda.
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 Elwanda 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 Elwanda 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 Elwanda, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Windmill
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elwanda
Elwanda
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. Elwanda sounds like this: