Vanda is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Vanda 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 Vanda. That means that a girl named Vanda 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 Vanda.
If your name is Vanda your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Vanda never ranked higher than position 1,011 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Vanda. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1893 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Vanda because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Vanda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Vanda still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Vanda who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Vanda 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 133 women and girls named Vanda, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 133 women and girls named Vanda live in no more than 9 different states, including for example Alabama, California, Colorado, Hawaii and Indiana. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Vanda. (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 Vanda lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Vanda 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 Vanda relative to its female population is Kentucky. And even there, only one in 46,149 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Vanda.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Vanda 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.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Vanda 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 Vanda, you can simply say:
Violin
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vanda
Vanda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
A
N
D
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.
V
A
N
D
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. Vanda sounds like this:
