Zuriah is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Zuriah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Zuriah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Zuriah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Zuriah ranks at #4,899. That means there are 4,898 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 Zuriah.
Meeting a woman or girl named Zuriah is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Zuriah can be found in only two: Florida and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Zuriah. 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 Zuriah living in one state or another (if your name is Zuriah and you live outside of Florida or Texas, 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 Zuriah is in Florida, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Florida, only 0.00010% of all female residents are named Zuriah – that’s just one in 982,047! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 11 women with that name. So, if your name is Zuriah, 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 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 Zuriah 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 Zuriah 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 Zuriah, you can simply say:
Zebra
Unicorn
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Zuriah
Zuriah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Z
U
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.
Z
U
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. Zuriah sounds like this:
