Pa is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Recently, the name Pa 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 Pa. That means that a girl named Pa 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 Pa.
The first name Pa is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 1,096 Americans in total bear this name. And these 1,096 women are located in only four states: California, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin (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 Pa 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 Pa in relation to it’s female population is Minnesota. And yet even there, only one in 9,009 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Pa.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
Being only two letters long, the name Pa is really special. Only 0.2% of all common first names in the US are written with just two letters. On the other hand, 99.8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than two 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.
That means that since 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Pa 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 Pa, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pa
Pa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
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.
P
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. Pa sounds like this:
