Shada is a female first name.
Recently, the name Shada 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 Shada. That means that a girl named Shada 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 Shada.
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 be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shada. Girls named Shada have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,018 Shada ranked higher than ever before in 1986. By comparison, there have been 108 years in which the first name Shada 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Shada only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shada was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Shada in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 84 women and girls named Shada, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 84 women and girls named Shada live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Maryland, New York and South Carolina. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Shada. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Shada lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Shada and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Shada relative to its female population is Illinois. And even there, only one in 302,748 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Shada.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With five letters, the name Shada 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 if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Shada 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 Shada, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shada
Shada
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
D
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.
S
H
A
D
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. Shada sounds like this:
