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The first name 
Yamilah

Yamilah is a female first name.

Yamilah – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Yamilah has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Yamilah. That means that a girl named Yamilah is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Yamilah

Yamilah has 7 letters 
and begins with a Y

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With seven letters, the name Yamilah has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.

Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.

Other names with 
Y, a, m, i, l, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Yamilah – Y, a, m, i, l, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Milayah or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Yamilah

If your name is Yamilah 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...

This is how you spell the name Yamilah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yamilah, you can simply say:

Yoyo

Apple

Mouse

Igloo

Lion

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Yamilah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Yamilah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Yamilah

Yamilah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Yamilah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Yamilah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

Y
A
M
I
L
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Yamilah

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.

Y
A
M
I
L
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

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. Yamilah sounds like this: