Hera is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hera 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 Hera. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hera is #3,302 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 Hera.
In fact, the name Hera 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), Hera seemed to be more popular than ever in 2021. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,557, 58 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Hera, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hera was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Hera a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #2,630 - with a total of 56 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.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Hera 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 145 women and girls named Hera, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 145 women and girls named Hera live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Hera. (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 Hera lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Hera 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 Hera relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 191,191 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Hera.
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 Hera 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.
If your name is Hera 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 Hera, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hera
Hera
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
R
A
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
R
A
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. Hera sounds like this:
