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The first name 
Kailan

Kailan is a first name for all genders.

Kailan is a very rare first name!

At least in the US, the name Kailan is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Kailan each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Kailan will meet someone with the same name. So, Kailan is a very special name!

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

Kailan -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Kailan did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Kailan seemed to be more popular than ever in 2009. Although the name never ranked higher than #5,124, 58 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Kailan, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

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

Kailan in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Kailan a few times. Among all babies it ranked #5,547 - with a total of 51 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Kailan has 6 letters 
and begins with a K

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a quite popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. Only the initial letters A and J are more common for first names.

With six letters, the name Kailan 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.

Therefore: As 7.7% of all first names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.

Other names with 
K, a, i, l, a and n

If you take all the letters in the name Kailan – K, a, i, l, a and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Akilan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Kailan

If your name is Kailan 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 Kailan

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

Koala

Apple

Igloo

Lion

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Kailan 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 Kailan in Braille?

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

Kailan

Kailan

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

K
A
I
L
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Kailan

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.

K
A
I
L
A
N

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. Kailan sounds like this: