Sahana is a female first name.
Sahana is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,563 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,562 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sahana.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Sahana are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Sahana is registered in 18 states, among which are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Sahana live in New Jersey, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 20,332 would turn around if you called the name Sahana across New Jersey.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Sahana 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 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sahana 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 Sahana, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Hat
Apple
Nut
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sahana
Sahana
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
A
H
A
N
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.
S
A
H
A
N
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. Sahana sounds like this:
