Howard is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Howard isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Howard ranks 909. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Howard. In total, there are currently 323,168 people – children, adults and seniors – named Howard living in the United States, which is approximately 0.10 % of the entire population.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Howard is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Howard for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Howard is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Howard is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #23 Howard easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1919.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Howard was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Howard is one of them. However, Howard is not equally widespread in all states, but people in West Virginia seem to particularly fancy this name – the 6,605 men called Howard who live here are 0,431% of all male residents and push their name up to #49 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in West Virginia. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 323,168 people with the name Howard. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Howard on position 98 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 six letters, the name Howard 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.
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 Howard 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 Howard, you can simply say:
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Orange
Windmill
Apple
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Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Howard
Howard
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Howard sounds like this: