Ettie is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Ettie 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 Ettie. That means that a girl named Ettie 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 Ettie.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Ettie 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 115 women and girls named Ettie, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 115 women and girls named Ettie live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and New York. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Ettie. (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 Ettie lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Ettie 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 Ettie relative to its female population is North Carolina. And even there, only one in 206,136 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ettie.
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 five letters, the name Ettie is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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 Ettie 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 Ettie, you can simply say:
Elephant
Tiger
Tiger
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ettie
Ettie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
T
T
I
E
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
T
I
E
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. Ettie sounds like this:
