Nelva is a female first name.
Recently, the name Nelva 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 Nelva. That means that a girl named Nelva 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 Nelva.
Is the name Nelva a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 44 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1935 – at that time, it ranked #973. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Nelva is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Nelva, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Nelva was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Nelva born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn girls with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Nelva born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The first name Nelva is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 178 Americans in total bear this name. And these 178 women are located in only four states: Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas (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 Nelva 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 Nelva in relation to it’s female population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 73,721 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Nelva.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Nelva is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Nelva 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 Nelva, you can simply say:
Nut
Elephant
Lion
Violin
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nelva
Nelva
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
E
L
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.
N
E
L
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. Nelva sounds like this:
