Gerda is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Gerda 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 Gerda. That means that a girl named Gerda 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 Gerda.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Gerda 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 127 women and girls named Gerda, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 127 women and girls named Gerda live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York and North Dakota. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Gerda. (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 Gerda lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Gerda 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 Gerda relative to its female population is North Dakota. And even there, only one in 104,341 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Gerda.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter G is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 2.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a G. The most common first letters for girls' names are A and S, while U and X are the least common first letters of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Gerda 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.
This means that if 2.1% of all girls' names begin with a G, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with a G and are extremely popular, for example Grace, currently the most common girls' name with G.
If your name is Gerda 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 Gerda, you can simply say:
Goat
Elephant
Rocket
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Gerda
Gerda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
G
E
R
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.
G
E
R
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. Gerda sounds like this:
