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The first name 
Arabel

Arabel is a female first name.

Arabel – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Arabel in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Arabel in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Arabel by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Arabel ranks at #9,314. That means there are 9,313 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Arabel

Arabel has 6 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With six letters, the name Arabel 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 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, r, a, b, e and l

If you take all the letters in the name Arabel – A, r, a, b, e and l – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Braela or Labrea.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Arabel

If your name is Arabel 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...

This is how you spell the name Arabel

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Arabel, you can simply say:

Apple

Rocket

Apple

Butterfly

Elephant

Lion

This is how the name Arabel is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Arabel in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Arabel

Arabel

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Arabel

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Arabel is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
R
A
B
E
L

Have you ever waved the name Arabel

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.

A
R
A
B
E
L

Beeping like crazy...

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. Arabel sounds like this: