Makaiyah is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Makaiyah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Makaiyah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Makaiyah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Makaiyah ranks at #9,769. That means there are 9,768 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.
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 Makaiyah 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 Makaiyah 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 Makaiyah, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Koala
Apple
Igloo
Yoyo
Apple
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Makaiyah
Makaiyah
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
Y
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
I
Y
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. Makaiyah sounds like this:
