Handy is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Recently, the name Handy 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 boy in 100,000 has been named Handy. That means that a boy named Handy is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Handy.
Is the name Handy a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1888 – at that time, it landed at position 580 with 10 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Handy is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Handy, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Handy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Handy born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Handy born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
The first name Handy is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 20 Americans in total bear this name. And these 20 men are located in only three states: Louisiana, North Carolina and South Carolina (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Handy and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Handy in relation to it’s male population is North Carolina. And yet even there, only one in 458,589 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Handy present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Handy is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Handy 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 Handy, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Handy
Handy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
N
D
Y
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
D
Y
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. Handy sounds like this:
