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The first name 
Adlai

Adlai is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.

Adlai – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Adlai in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Adlai in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Adlai by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Adlai ranks at #5,031. That means there are 5,030 more common boys 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 Adlai.

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

Adlai -
a Dinosaur?

Is the name Adlai a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1892 – at that time, it landed at position 442 with 17 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Adlai is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Adlai, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Adlai was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Adlai in 2022 – There he is!

Welcome, Adlai, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 22 parents welcomed a new Adlai to earth that year. That makes Adlai ranking on position 3,953 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Adlai who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.

Adlai -
at home in

If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Adlai, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in . 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 men and boys called Adlai living in one state or another. (If your name is Adlai and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 1,361,755 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Adlai. So if your name is Adlai, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Adlai already makes you quite special.

Adlai has 5 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.

With five letters, the name Adlai 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 if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.

Other names with 
A, d, l, a and i

If you take all the letters in the name Adlai – A, d, l, a and i – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Adila or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Adlai

If your name is Adlai 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 Adlai

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

Apple

Dinosaur

Lion

Apple

Igloo

This is how the name Adlai 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 Adlai in Braille?

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

Adlai

Adlai

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

A
D
L
A
I

Have you ever waved the name Adlai

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.

A
D
L
A
I

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. Adlai sounds like this: