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The first name 
Gerta

Gerta is a first name for girls.

Gerta – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Gerta 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 Gerta. That means that a girl named Gerta is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Gerta

Gerta has 5 letters 
and begins with a G

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 Gerta 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.

Other names with 
G, e, r, t and a

If you take all the letters in the name Gerta – G, e, r, t and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Garet or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Gerta

If your name is Gerta 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...

This is how you spell the name Gerta

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Gerta, you can simply say:

Goat

Elephant

Rocket

Tiger

Apple

This is how the name Gerta is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Gerta in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Gerta

Gerta

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Gerta

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Gerta is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

G
E
R
T
A

Have you ever waved the name Gerta

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
T
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Gerta sounds like this: