Lain is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Lain in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lain in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Lain by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Lain ranks at #4,901. That means there are 4,900 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lain.
In fact, the name Lain 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), Lain seemed to be more popular than ever in 2004. Although the name never ranked higher than #3,140, 26 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Lain, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lain was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Lain a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #5,277 - with a total of 14 baby boys. 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 boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Meeting a man or boy named Lain is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Lain can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Lain. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Lain living in one state or another. (If your name is Lain and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Lain is in Texas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00009% of all male residents are called Lain – that’s just one in 1,107,789! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 11 men going by that name. So, if your name is Lain, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Lain is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Lain 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 Lain, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Igloo
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lain
Lain
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Lain sounds like this:
