Lakai is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Lakai is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Lakai. In the SmartGenius ranking, Lakai is #3,395 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lakai.
Meeting a man or boy named Lakai is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Lakai can be found in only two: Arizona and California. No other state currently has residents named Lakai. 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 Lakai living in one state or another. (If your name is Lakai and you live outside of Arizona or California, 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 Lakai is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00032% of all male residents are called Lakai – that’s just one in 308,145! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 58 men going by that name. So, if your name is Lakai, 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 five letters, the name Lakai 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.
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 Lakai 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 Lakai, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Koala
Apple
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lakai
Lakai
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
K
A
I
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
K
A
I
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. Lakai sounds like this:
