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The first name 
Uma

Uma is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Uma meet...

… 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.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Uma

Uma -
ahead of the curve

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.

Uma in 2022 – originality welcome!

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.

Uma -
quite rare in all states

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.

Uma has 3 letters 
and begins with a U

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.

Other names with 
U, m and a

If you take all the letters in the name Uma – U, m and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Mua or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Uma

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...

This is how you spell the name Uma

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Uma, you can simply say:

Unicorn

Mouse

Apple

This is how the name Uma is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Uma in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Uma

Uma

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Uma

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Uma is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

U
M
A

Have you ever waved the name Uma

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

Beeping like crazy...

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: