Hira is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Hira in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Hira in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Hira by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Hira ranks at #7,282. That means there are 7,281 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hira.
In fact, the name Hira hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Hira wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1999, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 3,210, 35 parents chose it in 1999 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Hira, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hira was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Hira a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 7,858, for a total of 11 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Hira seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
The first name Hira is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 127 Americans in total bear this name. And these 127 women are located in only five states: California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Hira 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 girls and women named Hira in relation to it’s female population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 157,017 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Hira.
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 Hira 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 Hira 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 Hira, you can simply say:
Hat
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hira
Hira
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
I
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
I
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. Hira sounds like this:
