Iva is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Iva is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,765 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,764 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 23,257 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Iva. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
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 only three letters, the name Iva is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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.
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 Iva 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 Iva, you can simply say:
Igloo
Violin
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Iva
Iva
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
V
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
V
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. Iva sounds like this:
