Lafrance is a unisex first name. It is given slightly more often to girls than to boys.
At least in the US, the name Lafrance is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Lafrance each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Lafrance will meet someone with the same name. So, Lafrance is a very special name!
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 eight letters, the name Lafrance is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.
If your name is Lafrance 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 Lafrance, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Fox
Rocket
Apple
Nut
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lafrance
Lafrance
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
F
R
A
N
C
E
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
R
A
N
C
E
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. Lafrance sounds like this:
