Leland comes from a surname, originally from an English place name, which means ‘fallow land’ in Old English.
Leland is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Leland isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Leland ranks 391. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 4 were named Leland. In the entire USA, approximately 50,178 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Leland. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Leland comes from a surname, originally from an English place name, which means ‘fallow land’ in Old English.
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For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Leland annualy. This means that there have been boys named Leland who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Leland have consistently been special. A small flight of popularity was experienced by the name way back in the last century and in one particular year, parents liked Leland even more than any other time: in 1921, it holds its present record at rank #164 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Leland was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Leland has never been ranked higher than #164. In 2022, he rivaled the 462 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 626 boys named Leland were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Leland were born, there have been 221 newborns who received this name.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Leland occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Leland is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Leland is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 50,178 men and boys of all generations bear the name Leland – that is one in 3,327. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in South Dakota, where one in 400 men and boys is called Leland, while it is particularly rare in Rhode Island, where you have to ask an average of 104,923 men for their name to get Leland as an answer once.
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 six letters, the name Leland 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.
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 Leland 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 Leland, you can simply say:
Lion
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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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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. Leland sounds like this:
