Rachael is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
Rachael 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 1,412 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,411 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 77,195 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Rachael. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Rachael is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their child Rachael. This means that several girls named Rachael have witnessed major events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. This first name has been particularly popular for several years and was ranked as high as #96 in 1988 at the latest. Furthermore, the name has also been in the top 100 a number of times. This makes Rachael one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rachael was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The name Rachael may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Rachael is apparently especially popular in Alaska. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 810 women in Alaska is called Rachael. In total, that’s 235 women who feel addressed when the name Rachael is shouted loudly across Alaska and who ensure that their name makes it to #234 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Rachael as the answer a total of 77,195 times. This places Rachael at #400 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Rachael as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Rachael has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.
Thus, it follows that if 4.1% of all girls' names start with an R, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: Rebecca is the girls’ name starting with R, which is the most common of all.
If your name is Rachael 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 Rachael, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Cat
Hat
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Rachael
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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L
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.
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A
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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. Rachael sounds like this:
