Jihan is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
Recently, the name Jihan 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 Jihan. That means that a girl named Jihan 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 Jihan.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Jihan. Girls named Jihan have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,692 Jihan ranked higher than ever before in 1982. By comparison, there have been 99 years in which the first name Jihan has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2009. In general, parents name their daughters Jihan only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jihan was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Jihan continues to be a precious jewel: 16 newborns were named Jihan that year, ranking #6,090 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Jihan, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Jihan 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 92 women and girls named Jihan, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 92 women and girls named Jihan live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota and New York. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Jihan. (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 Jihan lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Jihan 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 Jihan relative to its female population is New York. And even there, only one in 225,157 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Jihan.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names. That’s because 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Jihan is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
This means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with the letter J, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. And Jennifer is the girls' name starting with J, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Jihan 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 Jihan, you can simply say:
Joker
Igloo
Hat
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jihan
Jihan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
I
H
A
N
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.
J
I
H
A
N
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. Jihan sounds like this:
