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The first name 
Leiya

Leiya is a first name for girls.

Leiya – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Leiya in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Leiya in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Leiya by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Leiya ranks at #6,906. That means there are 6,905 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Leiya.

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

Leiya -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Leiya is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Leiya can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Leiya. 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 Leiya living in one state or another (if your name is Leiya 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 Leiya 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 0.00007% of all female residents are named Leiya – that’s just one in 1,491,291! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 10 women with that name. So, if your name is Leiya, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Leiya has 5 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 five letters, the name Leiya 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.

Other names with 
L, e, i, y and a

If you take all the letters in the name Leiya – L, e, i, y and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Eliya or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Leiya

If your name is Leiya 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 Leiya

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

Lion

Elephant

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

This is how the name Leiya 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 Leiya in Braille?

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

Leiya

Leiya

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

L
E
I
Y
A

Have you ever waved the name Leiya

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
Y
A

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. Leiya sounds like this: