Kina is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Kina in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Kina in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Kina by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Kina ranks at #7,444. That means there are 7,443 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kina.
In fact, the name Kina wasn't vogue in the 19th century, but between 1900 and 1975 young parents changed that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Kina seemed more popular than ever in 1973, when 46 parents named their daughters Kina. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,698, that year parents chose it as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kina, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Kina a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 6,652, for a total of 14 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for a many years. As Kina seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Kina 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 145 women and girls named Kina, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 145 women and girls named Kina live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois and Missouri. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Kina. (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 Kina lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Kina 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 Kina relative to its female population is Illinois. And even there, only one in 95,806 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Kina.
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 Kina 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 Kina 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 Kina, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Kina sounds like this: