Iley is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Iley is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Iley each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Iley will meet someone with the same name. So, Iley is a very special name!
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 Iley. Kids called Iley have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,657 Iley ranked higher than ever in 1900. By comparison, there have been 110 years in which the first name Iley 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 2019. In general, parents name their babies Iley only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Iley you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Iley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Iley continues to be a precious jewel: 16 newborns were named Iley that year, ranking #11,865 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Iley, 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 I is quite rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with I, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But I is by no means the rarest initial. While U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K.
With four letters, the name Iley 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.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all first names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Iley 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 Iley, you can simply say:
Igloo
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Iley
Iley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
L
E
Y
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.
I
L
E
Y
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. Iley sounds like this:
