Rachal is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Rachal has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Rachal. That means that a girl named Rachal is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rachal.
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 be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Rachal. Girls named Rachal have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,752 Rachal ranked higher than ever before in 1986. By comparison, there have been 95 years in which the first name Rachal 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Rachal only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rachal was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Rachal in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 270 women and girls named Rachal, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 270 women and girls named Rachal live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan and New York. In all other 40 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Rachal. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women 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 Rachal lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Rachal 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 girls and women named Rachal relative to its female population is Louisiana. And even there, only one in 28,030 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Rachal.
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 six letters, the name Rachal 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.
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 Rachal 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 Rachal, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Cat
Hat
Apple
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rachal
Rachal
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
C
H
A
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.
R
A
C
H
A
L
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. Rachal sounds like this:
