Lelan is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Lelan in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Lelan in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Lelan by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Lelan ranks at #3,989. That means there are 3,988 more common boys 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 Lelan.
If your name is Lelan your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Lelan has never ranked higher than position 1,628 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Lelan for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1925 to give 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 Lelan because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lelan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Lelan is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 12 times in the entire USA. So a Lelan of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The first name Lelan is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 34 Americans in total bear this name. And these 34 men are located in only four states: California, Georgia, Texas and West Virginia (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Lelan and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Lelan in relation to it’s male population is West Virginia. And yet even there, only one in 306,426 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Lelan present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Lelan 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.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Lelan 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 Lelan, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Lelan sounds like this:
