Lyan is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Lyan is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Lyan. In the SmartGenius ranking, Lyan is #2,603 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lyan.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Lyan. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 174 Americans who bear this name. And these 174 men and boys named Lyan live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Lyan lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Lyan and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Lyan relative to its male population is Florida. And even there, only one male in 198,027 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Lyan.
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 Lyan 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.
If your name is Lyan 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 Lyan, you can simply say:
Lion
Yoyo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lyan
Lyan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
Y
A
N
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
Y
A
N
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. Lyan sounds like this:
