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The first name 
Hawa

Hawa is a female first name.

Hawa is a well-known but special name!

Hawa 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 1,854 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,853 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 Hawa.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Hawa

Hawa -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Hawa did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Hawa seemed to be more popular than ever in 2021. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,604, 113 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Hawa, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Hawa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Hawa in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Hawa a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,736 - with a total of 103 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Hawa -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Hawa 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 Hawa is registered in 14 states, among which are Arizona, California, Georgia, Kentucky or Maryland. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Hawa live in New York, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 22,861 would turn around if you called the name Hawa across New York.

Hawa has 4 letters 
and begins with an H

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 four letters, the name Hawa 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.

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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Hawa

If your name is Hawa 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...

This is how you spell the name Hawa

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hawa, you can simply say:

Hat

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Windmill

Apple

This is how the name Hawa is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Hawa in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Hawa

Hawa

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Hawa

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Hawa is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

H
A
W
A

Have you ever waved the name Hawa

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
W
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Hawa sounds like this: