Zamaya is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Zamaya 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 Zamaya. In the SmartGenius ranking, Zamaya is #3,629 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 Zamaya.
The first name Zamaya is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 93 Americans in total bear this name. And these 93 women are located in only five states: California, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Zamaya and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Zamaya in relation to it’s female population is Texas. And yet even there, only one in 287,321 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Zamaya.
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 six letters, the name Zamaya 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 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 Zamaya 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 Zamaya, you can simply say:
Zebra
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zamaya
Zamaya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
A
M
A
Y
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
M
A
Y
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. Zamaya sounds like this:
