Zaila is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Zaila is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Zaila. In the SmartGenius ranking, Zaila is #3,176 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 Zaila.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Zaila 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 120 women and girls named Zaila, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 120 women and girls named Zaila live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois and New York. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Zaila. (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 Zaila lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Zaila 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 Zaila relative to its female population is Florida. And even there, only one in 233,821 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Zaila.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Z is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Z. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Zaila 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.
That means that with 1.9% of all girls' names beginning with a Z, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with Z that are quite popular, the most common at present is Zoe.
If your name is Zaila 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 Zaila, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zaila
Zaila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
I
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.
Z
A
I
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. Zaila sounds like this:
