Hiawatha is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
At least in the US, the name Hiawatha is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Hiawatha each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Hiawatha will meet someone with the same name. So, Hiawatha is a very special name!
If your name is Hiawatha your parents may be very proud to let their child swim against the tide: The name Hiawatha never ranked higher than position 2,359 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their offspring Hiawatha. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1934 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Hiawatha because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hiawatha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Hiawatha still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Hiawatha who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not really common as a first letter for given names: only 2.3% of all common first names in the US begin with H. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With eight letters, the name Hiawatha is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 2.3% of all first names beginning with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Hiawatha 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 Hiawatha, you can simply say:
Hat
Igloo
Apple
Windmill
Apple
Tiger
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hiawatha
Hiawatha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
I
A
W
A
T
H
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
I
A
W
A
T
H
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. Hiawatha sounds like this:
