Helios is a first name for boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Helios is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Helios. In the SmartGenius ranking, Helios is #3,519 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Helios.
The first name Helios is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 107 Americans in total bear this name. And these 107 men are located in only three states: Arizona, California and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Helios and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Helios in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 230,024 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Helios present.
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 six letters, the name Helios 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.
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 Helios 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 Helios, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Orange
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Helios
Helios
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
L
I
O
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
L
I
O
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. Helios sounds like this:
