Cailan is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Cailan is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Cailan each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Cailan will meet someone with the same name. So, Cailan is a very special name!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for first names. This is because 5.7% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.
With six letters, the name Cailan 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.
With 5.7% of all first names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters.
If your name is Cailan 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 Cailan, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cailan
Cailan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
I
L
A
N
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.
C
A
I
L
A
N
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. Cailan sounds like this:
