Langley is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Langley is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Langley each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Langley will meet someone with the same name. So, Langley is a very special name!
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 Langley. Kids called Langley have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,108 Langley ranked higher than ever in 1907. By comparison, there have been 95 years in which the first name Langley 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 1989. In general, parents name their babies Langley only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Langley you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Langley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Langley continues to be a precious jewel: 15 newborns were named Langley that year, ranking #12,356 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Langley, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
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 seven letters, the name Langley 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.
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 Langley 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 Langley, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Nut
Goat
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Langley
Langley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
N
G
L
E
Y
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
G
L
E
Y
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. Langley sounds like this:
