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The first name 
Zura

Zura is a female first name.

Zura – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Zura 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 Zura. That means that a girl named Zura is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Zura

Zura has 4 letters 
and begins with a Z

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 four letters, the name Zura is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.

Other names with 
Z, u, r and a

If you take all the letters in the name Zura – Z, u, r and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Uraz or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Zura

If your name is Zura 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...

This is how you spell the name Zura

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Zura, you can simply say:

Zebra

Unicorn

Rocket

Apple

This is how the name Zura is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Zura in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Zura

Zura

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Zura

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Zura is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Z
U
R
A

Have you ever waved the name Zura

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
U
R
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Zura sounds like this: