Pollyanna is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Pollyanna in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Pollyanna in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Pollyanna by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Pollyanna ranks at #9,705. That means there are 9,704 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Pollyanna.
If your name is Pollyanna your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Pollyanna never ranked higher than position 1,457 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Pollyanna. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1964 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Pollyanna because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Pollyanna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Pollyanna still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 8 times in the entire U.S. So, a Pollyanna from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The first name Pollyanna is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 27 Americans in total bear this name. And these 27 women are located in only three states: California, Indiana and Kentucky (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 Pollyanna 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 Pollyanna in relation to it’s female population is Kentucky. And yet even there, only one in 535,324 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Pollyanna.
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 nine letters, the name Pollyanna is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Pollyanna 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 Pollyanna, you can simply say:
Pig
Orange
Lion
Lion
Yoyo
Apple
Nut
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Pollyanna
Pollyanna
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
O
L
L
Y
A
N
N
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
O
L
L
Y
A
N
N
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. Pollyanna sounds like this:
