Hirving is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Hirving 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 boy in 100,000 has been named Hirving. That means that a boy named Hirving is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his 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 Hirving.
Meeting a man or boy named Hirving is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Hirving can be found in only two: California and Washington. No other state currently has residents named Hirving. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Hirving living in one state or another. (If your name is Hirving and you live outside of California or Washington, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Hirving is in Washington, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Washington, only 0.00019% of all male residents are called Hirving – that’s just one in 528,753! And even in all the states, California and Washington, combined there are only a total of 13 men going by that name. So, if your name is Hirving, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
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 seven letters, the name Hirving has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Hirving 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 Hirving, you can simply say:
Hat
Igloo
Rocket
Violin
Igloo
Nut
Goat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hirving
Hirving
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
I
R
V
I
N
G
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
V
I
N
G
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. Hirving sounds like this:
