How many full grown men do you know who are around 5'8?

Question

That's my estimated adult height, I hear it's on the short side but still considered average, but lately I've been led to think people view men who are 5'8 as very short?

Answer 1

I am 5' 8" dude, and this is short. I am jealous of tall guys.

Answer 2

for a man 5'8 is short. tom cruise, jermaine dupree

Answer 3

lots of guys are that height.  and, I've seen lots of guys way shorter.  You're OK.

Answer 4

My fully grown teacher was that height, and most of the class was taller than him. We were all in the 8th grade.

Answer 5

I am 5'7 and I do consider myself short.  I do not know about very short, but do I worry about it, or concern myself with it.  No.  By the way I am 38, and have 3 kids.  It's not like I am not living a normal life.

Answer 6

I just recently turned 5' 10" just about at the age of 17. I know exactly how you feel because for the longest time I was 5' 8" and felt underdeveloped, but I gotta tell you, I have a bunch of friends who are 5'8" and they get with more good looking girls than I can ever dream of. I guess it's not what you got, but how you use it. They say the national average height for an American male is 5'9" but that varies with every chart I read. I've heard all from 5'7" - 5'10". You're not at all very short. Plus estimated height is usually the average of your parents heights and they say there's a percent error of like3-5 inches in either direction. So assuming you're still in the teens, you might even exceed this height. In any case, 5'8" is a very respectable height.

Answer 7

Average height for a male is actually 5'9". I'm an adult male and I am 5'8" my best friend is also exactly the same height. So 5'8" is not uncommon. But anything under that would be considered on the short side. But it's when you start seeing the 5'2", 5'3" guys where girls are taller than them, that you can really consider them short.

Matthew Broderick 5'8"

Tom Cruise is 5'7"

Macaulay Culkin 5'7"

Bow Wow 5'7"

Jamie Bell 5'7"

Elijah Wood 5'6"

Dustin Hoffman 5'6"

Al Pacino 5'5"

Michael J. Fox 5'4"

Jermaine Dupri 5'4"

Frankie Muniz 5'4"

Seth Green 5'4"

Prince 5'2"

Answer 8

5'8" is on the tall side of "short" since the average male height is somewhere between 5'10" and 6'. However it is not so short as to be considered truly short. Anything from 5' down in a full grown man would be considered short.