Hessie is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Recently, the name Hessie has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Hessie. That means that a girl named Hessie is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hessie.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Hessie 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 168 women and girls named Hessie, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 168 women and girls named Hessie live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina and South Carolina. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Hessie. (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 Hessie lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Hessie 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 Hessie relative to its female population is North Carolina. And even there, only one in 41,227 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Hessie.
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 six letters, the name Hessie 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.
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 Hessie 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 Hessie, you can simply say:
Hat
Elephant
Sun
Sun
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hessie
Hessie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
E
S
S
I
E
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
S
S
I
E
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. Hessie sounds like this:
