Hanley is a first name for all genders, most often used for boys.
At least in the US, the name Hanley is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Hanley each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Hanley will meet someone with the same name. So, Hanley is a very special name!
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Hanley. Kids called Hanley have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,822 Hanley ranked higher than ever in 1914. By comparison, there have been 81 years in which the first name Hanley has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2004. In general, parents name their babies Hanley only once in a blue moon, so, if your name is Hanley you can consider yourself truly special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hanley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Hanley continues to be a precious jewel: 15 newborns were named Hanley that year, ranking #12,356 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Hanley, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not really common as a first letter for given names: only 2.3% of all common first names in the US begin with H. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With six letters, the name Hanley 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 with 2.3% of all first names beginning with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Hanley 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 Hanley, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Nut
Lion
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hanley
Hanley
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
N
L
E
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
L
E
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. Hanley sounds like this:
