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The first name 
Lela

Lela is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Lela is a well-known but special name!

Lela is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,469 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,468 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 27,372 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lela. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.

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

Lela -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Lela annualy. This means that there have been girls named Lela who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Lela have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Lela even more than any other time: in 1894, it holds its present record of rank #110 in the list of the most popular girls' names.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Lela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

How popular was Lela 2022 among young parents?

Lela has never been ranked higher than #110. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,787 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 98 girls named Lela were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Lela were born, there have been 56 newborns who received this name.

Lela has 4 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 four letters, the name Lela 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.

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, l and a

If you take all the letters in the name Lela – L, e, l and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Leal or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lela

If your name is Lela 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 Lela

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

Lion

Elephant

Lion

Apple

This is how the name Lela 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 Lela in Braille?

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

Lela

Lela

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

L
E
L
A

Have you ever waved the name Lela

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
L
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. Lela sounds like this: