Shira is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Shira is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 girls have been named Shira. In the SmartGenius ranking, Shira is #2,135 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shira.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Shira are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Shira is registered in 15 states, among which are California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Shira live in New York, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 7,268 would turn around if you called the name Shira across New York.
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 Shira 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 Shira 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 Shira, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shira
Shira
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
I
R
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
I
R
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. Shira sounds like this:
