Hanalei is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Hanalei in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Hanalei in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Hanalei by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Hanalei ranks at #6,729. That means there are 6,728 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 Hanalei.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Hanalei, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and Hawaii. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Hanalei living in one state or another (if your name is Hanalei and you live outside of California and Hawaii, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 88,259 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Hanalei. So, if your name is Hanalei it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Hanalei already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Hanalei 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.
Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.
If your name is Hanalei 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 Hanalei, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Nut
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hanalei
Hanalei
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
N
A
L
E
I
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.
H
A
N
A
L
E
I
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. Hanalei sounds like this:
