Maraya is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Maraya in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Maraya in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Maraya by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Maraya ranks at #5,817. That means there are 5,816 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maraya.
In fact, the name Maraya did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Maraya seemed to be more popular than ever in 2006. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,723, 58 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Maraya, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maraya was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Maraya a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #7,418 - with a total of 12 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Meeting a woman or girl named Maraya is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Maraya can be found in only two: California and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Maraya. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Maraya living in one state or another (if your name is Maraya and you live outside of California or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Maraya is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00064% of all female residents are named Maraya – that’s just one in 155,343! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 131 women with that name. So, if your name is Maraya, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With six letters, the name Maraya 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.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Maraya 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 Maraya, you can simply say:
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Apple
Rocket
Apple
Yoyo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maraya
Maraya
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
R
A
Y
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.
M
A
R
A
Y
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. Maraya sounds like this:
