Uma is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Uma is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Uma. In the SmartGenius ranking, Uma is #2,270 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 Uma.
In fact, the name Uma did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Uma seemed to be more popular than ever in 2014. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,154, 78 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Uma, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Uma was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Uma a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,198 - with a total of 73 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Uma 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 Uma is registered in 12 states, among which are California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana or Massachusetts. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Uma live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 42,853 would turn around if you called the name Uma across California.
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 Uma 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 Uma 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 Uma, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Uma
Uma
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
U
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.
U
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. Uma sounds like this:
