Sula is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Sula in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Sula in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Sula by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Sula ranks at #9,905. That means there are 9,904 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 Sula.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Sula 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 104 women and girls named Sula, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 104 women and girls named Sula live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Sula. (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 Sula lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Sula 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 Sula relative to its female population is South Carolina. And even there, only one in 137,633 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Sula.
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 four letters, the name Sula is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Sula 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 Sula, you can simply say:
Sun
Unicorn
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sula
Sula
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
U
L
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
U
L
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. Sula sounds like this:
