Kela is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Kela 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 Kela. That means that a girl named Kela 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 Kela.
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 Kela. Girls named Kela have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,531 Kela ranked higher than ever in 1975. By comparison, there have been 89 years in which the first name Kela 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 Kela 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 Kela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Kela is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 46 Americans in total bear this name. And these 46 women are located in only three states: California, Hawaii and Louisiana (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 Kela 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 Kela in relation to it’s female population is Hawaii. And yet even there, only one in 36,775 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Kela.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Kela is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kela 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 Kela, you can simply say:
Koala
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kela
Kela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
E
L
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.
K
E
L
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. Kela sounds like this:
