Irmgard is a female first name.
Recently, the name Irmgard 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 Irmgard. That means that a girl named Irmgard 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 Irmgard.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Irmgard. Girls named Irmgard have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,338 Irmgard ranked higher than ever in 1930. By comparison, there have been 105 years in which the first name Irmgard has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Irmgard only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Irmgard was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Irmgard is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 121 Americans in total bear this name. And these 121 women are located in only three states: Illinois, New York and Wisconsin (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Irmgard and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Irmgard in relation to it’s female population is Wisconsin. And yet even there, only one in 108,638 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Irmgard.
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 seven letters, the name Irmgard has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Irmgard 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 Irmgard, you can simply say:
Igloo
Rocket
Mouse
Goat
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Irmgard
Irmgard
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
R
M
G
A
R
D
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
R
M
G
A
R
D
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. Irmgard sounds like this:
