Providence is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Providence in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Providence in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Providence by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Providence ranks at #9,241. That means there are 9,240 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 Providence.
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 Providence. Girls named Providence have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,299 Providence ranked higher than ever in 1910. By comparison, there have been 74 years in which the first name Providence 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 2004. In general, parents name their daughters Providence 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 Providence was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Providence continues to be a precious jewel: 8 newborns were named Providence that year, ranking #9,733 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Providence, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a woman or girl named Providence is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Providence can be found in only two: New York and Pennsylvania. No other state currently has residents named Providence. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Providence living in one state or another (if your name is Providence and you live outside of New York or Pennsylvania, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Providence is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00184% of all female residents are named Providence – that’s just one in 54,242! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 225 women with that name. So, if your name is Providence, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
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 ten letters, the name Providence is obviously a particularly long first name used in the U.S.: only 1.8% of all common first names have exactly ten letters. 98% of all first names are shorter, while only 0.6% of all boys’ and girls’ names need more than ten 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 Providence 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 Providence, you can simply say:
Pig
Rocket
Orange
Violin
Igloo
Dinosaur
Elephant
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Providence
Providence
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Providence sounds like this:
