Lake is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
Few children have been named Lake in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 children are currently called Lake. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Lake at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Lake is number *** on the list of most common first names.
If your name is Lake your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Lake never ranked higher than position 1,632 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their newborn Lake. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1899 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Lake because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lake was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Lake still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 153 times in the entire U.S. So, a Lake from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
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 four letters, the name Lake 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.
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 Lake 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 Lake, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Koala
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lake
Lake
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
K
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
K
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. Lake sounds like this:
