Laiyah is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Laiyah is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 girls have been named Laiyah. In the SmartGenius ranking, Laiyah is #2,572 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Laiyah.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Laiyah 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 Laiyah is registered in 13 states, among which are California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Louisiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Laiyah live in Georgia, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 67,101 would turn around if you called the name Laiyah across Georgia.
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.
With six letters, the name Laiyah 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.
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 Laiyah 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 Laiyah, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Laiyah
Laiyah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
I
Y
A
H
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
I
Y
A
H
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. Laiyah sounds like this:
