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The first name 
Lian

Lian is a unisex first name, but it has been given primarily to boys for a number of years.

Lian – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Lian in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 7 out of 100,000 children are currently called Lian. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Lian at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Lian is number *** on the list of most common first names.

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

Lian -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Lian did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Lian seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,302, 428 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Lian, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

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

Lian 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 quite common as an initial letter for first names. To be precise, 5.5% of all given names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K.

With four letters, the name Lian 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.

Therefore: As 5.5% of all first names start with an L, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average.

Other names with 
L, i, a and n

If you take all the letters in the name Lian – L, i, a and n – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Lani or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lian

If your name is Lian 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 Lian

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

Lion

Igloo

Apple

Nut

This is how the name Lian 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 Lian in Braille?

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

Lian

Lian

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

L
I
A
N

Have you ever waved the name Lian

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
I
A
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. Lian sounds like this: