Hans is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
Hans is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1297 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,296 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 9,248 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Hans. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Hans annualy. This means that there have been boys named Hans 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 Hans have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Hans even more than any other time: in 1885, it holds its present record at rank #273 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hans was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Hans has never been ranked higher than #273. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,286 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 131 boys named Hans were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Hans were born, there have been 171 newborns who received this name.
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 four letters, the name Hans is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 Hans 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 Hans, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Nut
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hans
Hans
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
N
S
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
S
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. Hans sounds like this:
