Flavia is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Flavia in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Flavia in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Flavia by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Flavia ranks at #6,513. That means there are 6,512 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 Flavia.
Flavia 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 1907, where the name Flavia was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Flavia and were born in the USA in 1907, 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, Flavia even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1884, it ranked on position 649 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Flavia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Flavia 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 18 times and thus landed on position 5,665 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 18 girls with the name Flavia, 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.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Flavia 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 219 women and girls named Flavia, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 219 women and girls named Flavia live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Florida, Louisiana, New York and Pennsylvania. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Flavia. (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 Flavia lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Flavia 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 Flavia relative to its female population is Florida. And even there, only one in 77,940 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Flavia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter F is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.2% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an F. 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 Flavia 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 if 1.2% of all girls' names begin with an F, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with F that are quite popular, the most common at present is Frances.
If your name is Flavia 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 Flavia, you can simply say:
Fox
Lion
Apple
Violin
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Flavia
Flavia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
F
L
A
V
I
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.
F
L
A
V
I
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. Flavia sounds like this:
