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The first name 
Luby

Luby is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.

Luby – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Luby 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 Luby. That means that a boy named Luby 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 Luby.

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

Luby -
something very, very special - even in his home state North Carolina!

If you’re looking for someone named Luby, you might want to head to North Carolina. Why North Carolina of all places? Well, simply because, according to official statistics, there are no men or boys named Luby living in any other state. However, we have to admit that a first name is only listed in the official statistics of a state if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it may well be that there are still a few men and boys named Luby living in one state or another. But, in any case the name is extremely rare. (If your name happens to be Luby and you live outside of North Carolina, we would be very grateful if you could let us know so that we can refine our statistics even further). By the way, even in North Carolina, the name Luby is not really that common – there are only 108 men and boys with this name living there right now, which is not more than 0.00238% of all male residents of North Carolina – so if you are one of them, you can rightly say that you are someone very special!

Luby 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 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 Luby 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Luby

If your name is Luby 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 Luby

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

Lion

Unicorn

Butterfly

Yoyo

This is how the name Luby 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 Luby in Braille?

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

Luby

Luby

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

L
U
B
Y

Have you ever waved the name Luby

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
U
B
Y

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. Luby sounds like this: