Othella is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Othella 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 Othella. That means that a girl named Othella 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 Othella.
Is the name Othella a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1889 – at that time, it landed at position 954 with 7 newborn girls receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Othella is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Othella, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Othella 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 Othella 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 Othella born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The first name Othella is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 70 Americans in total bear this name. And these 70 women are located in only four states: Arkansas, Georgia, 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 Othella 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 Othella in relation to it’s female population is Oklahoma. And yet even there, only one in 106,731 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Othella.
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 seven letters, the name Othella has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Othella 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 Othella, you can simply say:
Orange
Tiger
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Othella
Othella
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
O
T
H
E
L
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.
O
T
H
E
L
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. Othella sounds like this:
