Syria is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Syria in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Syria in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Syria by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Syria ranks at #8,763. That means there are 8,762 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 Syria.
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 to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Syria. Girls named Syria have made themselves scarce. But some parents have recently gotten a taste for it: At No. 3,246 Syria ranked higher than ever in 2004. By comparison, there have been 103 years in which the first name Syria 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 Syria only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Syria 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 Syria 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 70 women and girls named Syria, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 70 women and girls named Syria live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Tennessee. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Syria. (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 Syria lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Syria 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 Syria relative to its female population is Florida. And even there, only one in 213,488 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Syria.
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 Syria 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 Syria 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 Syria, you can simply say:
Sun
Yoyo
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Syria
Syria
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
Y
R
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
Y
R
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. Syria sounds like this:
