Skylah is a first name for girls.
Skylah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,343 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,342 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Skylah.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Skylah are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Skylah in 23 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Skylah live in New York – here, one in 29,983 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 105,237 will turn around if you call her first name Skylah.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Skylah is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Skylah 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 Skylah, you can simply say:
Sun
Koala
Yoyo
Lion
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Skylah
Skylah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
K
Y
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.
S
K
Y
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. Skylah sounds like this:
