Nuala is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Nuala in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Nuala in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Nuala by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Nuala ranks at #8,810. That means there are 8,809 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 Nuala.
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 Nuala. Girls named Nuala have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 4,028 Nuala ranked higher than ever in 1965. By comparison, there have been 107 years in which the first name Nuala 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 Nuala 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 Nuala was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Meeting a woman or girl named Nuala is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Nuala can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Nuala. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Nuala living in one state or another (if your name is Nuala and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Nuala is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00018% of all female residents are named Nuala – that’s just one in 542,423! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 22 women with that name. So, if your name is Nuala, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
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 Nuala 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 Nuala 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 Nuala, you can simply say:
Nut
Unicorn
Apple
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Nuala
Nuala
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
U
A
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.
N
U
A
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. Nuala sounds like this:
