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The first name 
Obelia

Obelia is a female first name.

Obelia – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Obelia 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 Obelia. That means that a girl named Obelia 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 Obelia.

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to discover about the name
 
Obelia

Obelia -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Obelia is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Obelia can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Obelia. 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 Obelia living in one state or another (if your name is Obelia 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 Obelia is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00014% of all female residents are named Obelia – that’s just one in 700,345! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 16 women with that name. So, if your name is Obelia, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Obelia has 6 letters 
and begins with an O

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.0% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an O. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.

With six letters, the name Obelia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 1.0% of all girls' names begin with an O, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual girls' names with O are really popular, the most common currently being Olivia.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Obelia

If your name is Obelia 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...

This is how you spell the name Obelia

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Obelia, you can simply say:

Orange

Butterfly

Elephant

Lion

Igloo

Apple

This is how the name Obelia is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Obelia in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Obelia

Obelia

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Obelia

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Obelia is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

O
B
E
L
I
A

Have you ever waved the name Obelia

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.

O
B
E
L
I
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Obelia sounds like this: