Sulma is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Sulma 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 Sulma. That means that a girl named Sulma 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 Sulma.
Meeting a woman or girl named Sulma is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Sulma can be found in only three: California, New York and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Sulma. 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 Sulma living in one state or another. (If your name is Sulma and you live outside of California, New York or Texas, 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 Sulma is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00053% of all female residents are called Sulma – that’s just one in 189,064! And even in all the states, California, New York and Texas, combined there are only a total of 97 women going by that name. So, if your name is Sulma, chances are you will never meet another woman sharing your beautiful first name.
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 Sulma 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 Sulma 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 Sulma, you can simply say:
Sun
Unicorn
Lion
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sulma
Sulma
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
U
L
M
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
M
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. Sulma sounds like this:
