Laurell is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Recently, the name Laurell has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Laurell. That means that a girl named Laurell is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.
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 Laurell. Girls named Laurell have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,345 Laurell ranked higher than ever in 1923. By comparison, there have been 91 years in which the first name Laurell 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Laurell only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Laurell was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 Laurell 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 Laurell 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 Laurell, you can simply say:
Lion
Apple
Unicorn
Rocket
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Laurell
Laurell
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
A
U
R
E
L
L
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
U
R
E
L
L
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. Laurell sounds like this:
