Havana is a first name for girls.
Havana is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 2,084 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 2,083 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Havana.
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 Havana. Girls named Havana have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,160 Havana ranked higher than ever in 1898. By comparison, there have been 107 years in which the first name Havana 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 1994. In general, parents name their daughters Havana only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Havana was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Havana continues to be a precious jewel: 76 newborns were named Havana that year, ranking #2,142 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Havana, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Havana are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Havana is registered in 16 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois or Indiana. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Havana live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 68,723 would turn around if you called the name Havana across California.
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 six letters, the name Havana 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.
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 Havana 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 Havana, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Violin
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Havana
Havana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Havana sounds like this: