Oretha is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Oretha 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 Oretha. That means that a girl named Oretha 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 Oretha.
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 Oretha. Girls named Oretha have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,127 Oretha ranked higher than ever in 1926. By comparison, there have been 78 years in which the first name Oretha 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 Oretha 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 Oretha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Oretha 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 102 women and girls named Oretha, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 102 women and girls named Oretha live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Texas. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Oretha. (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 Oretha lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Oretha 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 Oretha relative to its female population is West Virginia. And even there, only one in 73,759 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Oretha.
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 Oretha 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.
If your name is Oretha 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 Oretha, you can simply say:
Orange
Rocket
Elephant
Tiger
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Oretha
Oretha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
R
E
T
H
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.
O
R
E
T
H
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. Oretha sounds like this:
