Lanae is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Lanae is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Lanae. In the SmartGenius ranking, Lanae is #3,309 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 Lanae.
While Lanae isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1992 the name Lanae reached its highest popularity with #1,867 in our ranking of all female first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their daughter Lanae. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and girls in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Lanae.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lanae was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 40 babies were born with the name Lanae. This puts the name in rank 3,328 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 3,705,798 newborns was named Lanae that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Lanae has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Lanae 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 Lanae is registered in 13 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana or Maryland. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Lanae live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 58,254 would turn around if you called the name Lanae across California.
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 Lanae 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.
If your name is Lanae 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 Lanae, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Nut
Apple
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lanae
Lanae
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
N
A
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
N
A
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. Lanae sounds like this:
