La is traditionally a female first name but has increasingly been given as a boys’ name in recent years.
Recently, the name La 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 La. That means that a girl named La is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named La.
If your name is La your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name La never ranked higher than position 1,502 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter La. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1990 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named La because that was a few decades ago - unless you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name La was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, La still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 8 times in the entire U.S. So, a La from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named La 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 La is registered in 12 states, among which are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado or New York. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name La live in Arkansas, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 46,704 would turn around if you called the name La across Arkansas.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 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 and S.
Being only two letters long, the name La is really special. Only 0.2% of all common first names in the US are written with just two letters. On the other hand, 99.8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than two 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 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is La 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 La, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
La
La
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
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.
L
A
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. La sounds like this:
