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The first name 
Padme

Padme is a female first name.

Padme – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Padme in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Padme in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Padme by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Padme ranks at #8,363. That means there are 8,362 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. Of all Americans currently living, not even one in 100,000 would answer if you shouted out the name Padme.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Padme

Padme -
something very, very special - even in her home state Texas!

If you’re looking for someone named Padme, you might want to head to Texas. Why Texas of all places? Well, simply because, according to official statistics, there are no women or girls named Padme living in any other state. However, we have to admit that a first name is only listed in the official statistics of a state if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it may well be that there are still a few women and girls named Padme living in one state or another. But, in any case the name is extremely rare (if your name happens to be Padme and you live outside of Texas, we would be very grateful if you could let us know so that we can refine our statistics even further). By the way, even in Texas, the name Padme is not really that common – there are only 6 women and girls with this name living there right now, which is not more than 0.00005% of all female residents of Texas – so if you are one of them, you can rightly say that you are someone very special!

Padme has 5 letters 
and begins with a P

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.

With five letters, the name Padme 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.

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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Padme

If your name is Padme 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 Padme

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

Pig

Apple

Dinosaur

Mouse

Elephant

This is how the name Padme 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 Padme in Braille?

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

Padme

Padme

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

P
A
D
M
E

Have you ever waved the name Padme

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
D
M
E

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. Padme sounds like this: