Elain is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Elain 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 Elain. That means that a girl named Elain is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Elain. Girls named Elain have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,603 Elain ranked higher than ever in 1929. By comparison, there have been 105 years in which the first name Elain has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their daughters Elain only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Elain was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Elain continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Elain that year, ranking #13,280 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Elain, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Elain 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 with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Elain 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 Elain, you can simply say:
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Elain
Elain
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
L
A
I
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.
E
L
A
I
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. Elain sounds like this:
