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The first name 
Leileen

Leileen is a female first name.

Leileen – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Leileen 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 Leileen. That means that a girl named Leileen is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Leileen.

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

Leileen -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Leileen is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Leileen can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Leileen. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Leileen living in one state or another (if your name is Leileen and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Leileen is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00004% of all female residents are named Leileen – that’s just one in 2,485,486! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 6 women with that name. So, if your name is Leileen, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Leileen has 7 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 seven letters, the name Leileen 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.

Other names with 
L, e, i, l, e, e and n

If you take all the letters in the name Leileen – L, e, i, l, e, e and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Ellenie or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Leileen

If your name is Leileen 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 Leileen

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

Lion

Elephant

Igloo

Lion

Elephant

Elephant

Nut

This is how the name Leileen 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 Leileen in Braille?

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

Leileen

Leileen

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

L
E
I
L
E
E
N

Have you ever waved the name Leileen

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
I
L
E
E
N

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. Leileen sounds like this: