Lois is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Lois 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 1,670 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,669 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 317,196 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lois. That is 0.09 % of all living Americans.
Lois is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their child Lois. This means that several girls named Lois have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Lois has reached its best rank of #17 multiple times, most recently in 1930. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Lois one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lois was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Lois will be Lois. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Lois in 2022 – in fact 123 to be precise, confirming Lois as is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #1,527 among all girls‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2005, when only 65 baby girls were named Lois.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Lois is one of them. However, Lois is not equally widespread in all states, but people in South Dakota seem to particularly fancy this name – the 2,972 women called Lois who live here are 0,582% of all female residents and push their name up to #25, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in South Dakota.
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 Lois 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.
If your name is Lois 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 Lois, you can simply say:
Lion
Orange
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lois
Lois
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
O
I
S
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
O
I
S
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. Lois sounds like this:
