The name Vihaan means ‘dawn’ or ‘morning’ and is of Sanskrit origin. In the US, this name is in use since the early 21st century.
Vihaan is a first name for boys.
The name Vihaan 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, Vihaan ranks 626. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Vihaan. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Vihaan.
The name Vihaan means ‘dawn’ or ‘morning’ and is of Sanskrit origin. In the US, this name is in use since the early 21st century.
Sanskrit is an... ancient language that is still spoken by few in India today.
You may not know anyone named Vihaan, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 28 states are home to men and boys named Vihaan. (To be fair, 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 entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Vihaan living in one state or another. If your name is Vihaan and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In New Jersey, which has the most people named Vihaan relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,011 men and boys their names before you hear Vihaan as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The V is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.3% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a V. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Vihaan 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 1.3% of all boys' names start with a V, all other letters occur on average three times as often as the V. Nevertheless, individual boys' names with V are quite popular, the most common currently being Vincent.
If your name is Vihaan 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 Vihaan, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Hat
Apple
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vihaan
Vihaan
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
I
H
A
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.
V
I
H
A
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. Vihaan sounds like this:
