Ula is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Recently, the name Ula 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 Ula. That means that a girl named Ula 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 Ula.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Ula 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 69 women and girls named Ula, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 69 women and girls named Ula live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas and Kentucky. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Ula. (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 Ula lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Ula 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 Ula relative to its female population is Louisiana. And even there, only one in 247,178 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Ula.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter U is the rarest initial for girls' names in the US. Only 0.2% of all common girls' names begin with this letter. Incidentally, the second-rarest first letter of girls' names is X, and the most common first letters are A and S.
With only three letters, the name Ula is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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 with 0.2% of all girls' names starting with an X, all other letters occur on average nearly twenty times as often as the U. Moreover, of the comparatively few girls' names that start with X, most of them aren't very common either - the most popular one currently is Ursula.
If your name is Ula 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 Ula, you can simply say:
Unicorn
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ula
Ula
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Ula sounds like this:
