Shelvia is a female first name.
Recently, the name Shelvia 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 Shelvia. That means that a girl named Shelvia 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 Shelvia.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Shelvia 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 152 women and girls named Shelvia, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 152 women and girls named Shelvia live in no more than 8 different states, including for example Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Shelvia. (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 Shelvia lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Shelvia 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 Shelvia relative to its female population is West Virginia. And even there, only one in 52,685 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Shelvia.
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 seven letters, the name Shelvia has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Shelvia 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 Shelvia, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Violin
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shelvia
Shelvia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
E
L
V
I
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
E
L
V
I
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. Shelvia sounds like this:
