Idalia is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Idalia is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Idalia. In the SmartGenius ranking, Idalia is #3,565 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Idalia.
If your name is Idalia your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Idalia never ranked higher than position 1,175 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Idalia. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1889 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Idalia because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Idalia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Idalia still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 50 times in the entire U.S. So, a Idalia from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Idalia 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 1,684 women and girls named Idalia, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 1,684 women and girls named Idalia live in no more than 8 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Idalia. (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 Idalia lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Idalia 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 Idalia relative to its female population is Texas. And even there, only one in 11,117 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Idalia.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an I. 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 Idalia 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 since 1.7% of all girls’ names begin with an I, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names that begin with an I, which are quite popular
If your name is Idalia 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 Idalia, you can simply say:
Igloo
Dinosaur
Apple
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Idalia
Idalia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
D
A
L
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.
I
D
A
L
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. Idalia sounds like this:
