Jalayah is a female first name.
Jalayah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,559 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,558 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Jalayah.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Jalayah are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Jalayah is registered in 17 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Jalayah live in South Carolina, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 22,021 would turn around if you called the name Jalayah across South Carolina.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With seven letters, the name Jalayah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jalayah 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 Jalayah, you can simply say:
Joker
Apple
Lion
Apple
Yoyo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jalayah
Jalayah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
A
L
A
Y
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.
J
A
L
A
Y
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. Jalayah sounds like this:
