Leno is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Recently, the name Leno 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 boy in 100,000 has been named Leno. That means that a boy named Leno is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his 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 Leno.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Leno. Boys named Leno have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,056 Leno ranked higher than ever in 1909. By comparison, there have been 79 years in which the first name Leno has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2020. In general, parents name their sons Leno only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leno was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Leno continues to be a precious jewel: 7 newborns were named Leno that year, ranking #8,311 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Leno, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Leno is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 21 Americans in total bear this name. And these 21 men are located in only three states: California, Michigan and Pennsylvania (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 Leno 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 Leno in relation to it’s male population is Pennsylvania. And yet even there, only one in 804,185 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Leno 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 four letters, the name Leno 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.
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 Leno 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 Leno, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Nut
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Leno
Leno
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. Leno sounds like this:
