Makailah is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Makailah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Makailah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Makailah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Makailah ranks at #9,034. That means there are 9,033 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Makailah.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Makailah in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 81 women and girls named Makailah, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 81 women and girls named Makailah live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Makailah. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women 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 Makailah lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Makailah 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 girls and women named Makailah relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 346,812 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Makailah.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Makailah 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.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Makailah 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 Makailah, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Koala
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Makailah
Makailah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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K
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I
L
A
H
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.
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A
K
A
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L
A
H
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. Makailah sounds like this:
