Lean is a first name for all genders, most often used for girls.
At least in the US, the name Lean is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Lean each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Lean will meet someone with the same name. So, Lean is a very special name!
If your name is Lean your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Lean never ranked higher than position 3,978 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their offspring Lean. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1927 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Lean because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lean was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Lean still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 13 times in the entire U.S. So, a Lean from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
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 four letters, the name Lean is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
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 Lean 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 Lean, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lean
Lean
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
E
A
N
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
E
A
N
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. Lean sounds like this:
