Lourdes is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Lourdes 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 1,919 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,918 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lourdes.
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 seven letters, the name Lourdes has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Lourdes 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 Lourdes, you can simply say:
Lion
Orange
Unicorn
Rocket
Dinosaur
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lourdes
Lourdes
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
O
U
R
D
E
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
U
R
D
E
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. Lourdes sounds like this:
