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The first name 
Lalah

Lalah is a female first name.

Lalah – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Lalah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lalah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Lalah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Lalah ranks at #8,384. That means there are 8,383 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Lalah

Lalah -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Lalah. Girls named Lalah have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,090 Lalah ranked higher than ever in 1893. By comparison, there have been 96 years in which the first name Lalah has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1998. In general, parents name their daughters Lalah only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Lalah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Lalah in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Lalah continues to be a precious jewel: 7 newborns were named Lalah that year, ranking #10,613 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Lalah, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Lalah has 5 letters 
and begins with an L

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 five letters, the name Lalah 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.

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.

Other names with 
L, a, l, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Lalah – L, a, l, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Lahla or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lalah

If your name is Lalah 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...

This is how you spell the name Lalah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lalah, you can simply say:

Lion

Apple

Lion

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Lalah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Lalah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Lalah

Lalah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Lalah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Lalah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
A
L
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Lalah

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
L
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

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. Lalah sounds like this: