Arabelle is a female first name.
Arabelle 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 1,676 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,675 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 Arabelle.
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 Arabelle. Girls named Arabelle have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,180 Arabelle ranked higher than ever in 1893. By comparison, there have been 83 years in which the first name Arabelle 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 1997. In general, parents name their daughters Arabelle 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 Arabelle was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Arabelle continues to be a precious jewel: 91 newborns were named Arabelle that year, ranking #1,888 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Arabelle, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Arabelle are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Arabelle in 20 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Arabelle live in Florida – here, one in 66,355 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 221,831 will turn around if you call her first name Arabelle.
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 eight letters, the name Arabelle is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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.
If your name is Arabelle 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 Arabelle, you can simply say:
Apple
Rocket
Apple
Butterfly
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Arabelle
Arabelle
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
R
A
B
E
L
L
E
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
L
E
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. Arabelle sounds like this:
