Lakshmi is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Lakshmi is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Lakshmi. In the SmartGenius ranking, Lakshmi is #4,607 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 Lakshmi.
In fact, the name Lakshmi 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), Lakshmi seemed to be more popular than ever in 2011. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,770, 56 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Lakshmi, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lakshmi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Lakshmi a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #4,671 - with a total of 24 baby girls. 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 girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The first name Lakshmi is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 123 Americans in total bear this name. And these 123 women are located in only four states: California, Illinois, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Lakshmi and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Lakshmi in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 158,648 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Lakshmi.
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 seven letters, the name Lakshmi has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Lakshmi 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 Lakshmi, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Koala
Sun
Hat
Mouse
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lakshmi
Lakshmi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Lakshmi sounds like this: