Ursula is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Ursula is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Ursula. In the SmartGenius ranking, Ursula is #4,157 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 Ursula.
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 six letters, the name Ursula is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 Ursula 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 Ursula, you can simply say:
Unicorn
Rocket
Sun
Unicorn
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ursula
Ursula
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
U
R
S
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
R
S
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. Ursula sounds like this:
