Erla is a female first name.
Recently, the name Erla 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 Erla. That means that a girl named Erla 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 Erla.
Is the name Erla a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1889 – at that time, it landed at position 784 with 10 newborn girls receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Erla is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Erla, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Erla was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Erla, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 6 parents welcomed a new Erla to earth that year. That makes Erla ranking on position 11,784 among newborn girls in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Erla who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Erla, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in Ohio and Pennsylvania. 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 Erla living in one state or another (if your name is Erla and you live outside of Ohio and Pennsylvania, 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 33,390 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Erla. So, if your name is Erla it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Erla 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 four letters, the name Erla is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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 Erla 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 Erla, you can simply say:
Elephant
Rocket
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Erla
Erla
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
R
L
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
R
L
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. Erla sounds like this:
