Hays is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Hays in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Hays in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Hays by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Hays ranks at #4,586. That means there are 4,585 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hays.
Is the name Hays a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1880 – at that time, it landed at position 793 with 5 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Hays 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 Hays, 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 Hays was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Hays, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 21 parents welcomed a new Hays to earth that year. That makes Hays ranking on position 4,063 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Hays who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Hays, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in Arkansas or Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Hays living in one state or another. (If your name is Hays and you live outside of Arkansas and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 248,687 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Hays. So if your name is Hays, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Hays already makes you quite special.
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 Hays 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 Hays 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 Hays, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Yoyo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
Y
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
Y
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. Hays sounds like this:
