Ethelda is a female first name.
Recently, the name Ethelda 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 Ethelda. That means that a girl named Ethelda 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 Ethelda.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Ethelda. Girls named Ethelda have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,167 Ethelda ranked higher than ever in 1920. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Ethelda has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Ethelda only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ethelda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Ethelda, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in . 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 Ethelda living in one state or another (if your name is Ethelda and you live outside of , 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 1,120,552 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Ethelda. So, if your name is Ethelda it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Ethelda 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 seven letters, the name Ethelda 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 Ethelda 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 Ethelda, you can simply say:
Elephant
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ethelda
Ethelda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
T
H
E
L
D
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
T
H
E
L
D
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. Ethelda sounds like this:
