Mena is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Mena is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Mena. In the SmartGenius ranking, Mena is #4,190 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 Mena.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Mena 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 115 women and girls named Mena, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 115 women and girls named Mena live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and North Carolina. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Mena. (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 Mena lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Mena 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 Mena relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 219,308 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Mena.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Mena 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.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Mena 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 Mena, 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.
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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.
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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. Mena sounds like this:
