Race is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Race in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Race in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Race by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Race ranks at #4,455. That means there are 4,454 more common boys 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 Race.
In fact, the name Race 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), Race seemed to be more popular than ever in 2000. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,634, 62 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Race, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Race was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Race a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #7,630 - with a total of 8 baby boys. 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 boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Race. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 153 Americans who bear this name. And these 153 men and boys named Race live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois and Ohio. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Race lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Race and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Race relative to its male population is Idaho. And even there, only one male in 133,615 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Race.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Race is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Race 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 Race, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Cat
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Race
Race
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
C
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.
R
A
C
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. Race sounds like this:
