Lua is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Lua is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Lua. In the SmartGenius ranking, Lua is #2,576 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 Lua.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Lua 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 336 women and girls named Lua, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 336 women and girls named Lua live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Lua. (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 Lua lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Lua 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 Lua relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 102,143 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Lua.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With only three letters, the name Lua 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 with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lua 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 Lua, you can simply say:
Lion
Unicorn
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lua
Lua
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
U
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.
L
U
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. Lua sounds like this:
