Kansas is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Kansas is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Kansas. In the SmartGenius ranking, Kansas is #4,640 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kansas.
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 to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Kansas. Girls named Kansas have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,534 Kansas ranked higher than ever in 1898. By comparison, there have been 88 years in which the first name Kansas 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 1976. In general, parents name their daughters Kansas only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves quite special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kansas was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Kansas continues to be a precious jewel: 21 newborns were named Kansas that year, ranking #5,090 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Kansas, 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 Kansas 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 53 women and girls named Kansas, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 53 women and girls named Kansas live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. In all other 42 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Kansas. (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 Kansas lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Kansas 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 Kansas relative to its female population is Kentucky. And even there, only one in 167,289 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Kansas.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Kansas 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.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kansas 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 Kansas, you can simply say:
Koala
Apple
Nut
Sun
Apple
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kansas
Kansas
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
A
N
S
A
S
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.
K
A
N
S
A
S
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. Kansas sounds like this:
