Heiress is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Heiress is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Heiress. In the SmartGenius ranking, Heiress is #3,028 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Heiress.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Heiress in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 154 women and girls named Heiress, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 154 women and girls named Heiress live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Mississippi. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Heiress. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Heiress lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Heiress and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Heiress relative to its female population is Georgia. And even there, only one in 143,458 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Heiress.
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 seven letters, the name Heiress has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Heiress 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 Heiress, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Igloo
Rocket
Elephant
Sun
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Heiress
Heiress
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
I
R
E
S
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
E
I
R
E
S
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. Heiress sounds like this:
