Lysander is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Lysander 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 Lysander. In the SmartGenius ranking, Lysander is #3,359 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 Lysander.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Lysander. Boys named Lysander have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 2,266 Lysander ranked higher than ever in 1972. By comparison, there have been 106 years in which the first name Lysander has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 1999. In general, parents name their sons Lysander only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lysander was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Lysander continues to be a precious jewel: 23 newborns were named Lysander that year, ranking #3,845 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Lysander, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Lysander is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 63 Americans in total bear this name. And these 63 men are located in only four states: California, Illinois, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Lysander and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Lysander in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 398,334 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Lysander present.
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 eight letters, the name Lysander is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.
If your name is Lysander 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 Lysander, you can simply say:
Lion
Yoyo
Sun
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lysander
Lysander
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
Y
S
A
N
D
E
R
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
S
A
N
D
E
R
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. Lysander sounds like this:
