Xariah is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Xariah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Xariah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Xariah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Xariah ranks at #6,957. That means there are 6,956 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Xariah.
Meeting a woman or girl named Xariah is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Xariah can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Xariah. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Xariah living in one state or another (if your name is Xariah and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Xariah is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00006% of all female residents are named Xariah – that’s just one in 1,600,788! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 7 women with that name. So, if your name is Xariah, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter X is very rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.3% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. Only the letter U is even rarer as the first letter of girls' names. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With six letters, the name Xariah 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 0.3% of all girls' names starting with an X, all other letters occur on average more than ten times as often as the X. 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 Ximena.
If your name is Xariah 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 Xariah, you can simply say:
Xylophone
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Xariah
Xariah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
X
A
R
I
A
H
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.
X
A
R
I
A
H
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. Xariah sounds like this:
