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The first name 
Lafon

Lafon is a first name for all genders. The name is given as well to boys and to girls.

Lafon is a very rare first name!

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

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

Lafon has 5 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is quite common as an initial letter for first names. To be precise, 5.5% of all given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.

With five letters, the name Lafon 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.

Therefore: As 5.5% of all first names start with an L, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average.

Other names with 
L, a, f, o and n

If you take all the letters in the name Lafon – L, a, f, o and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Flona or Falon.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lafon

If your name is Lafon 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 Lafon

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

Lion

Apple

Fox

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Lafon 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 Lafon in Braille?

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

Lafon

Lafon

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

L
A
F
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Lafon

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
F
O
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. Lafon sounds like this: