Rae is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Rae 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 1,271 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,270 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 Rae.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Rae annualy. This means that there have been girls named Rae who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Rae have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Rae even more than any other time: in 1895, it holds its present record of rank #299 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rae was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Rae has never been ranked higher than #299. In 2022, she rivaled the 1,035 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 206 girls named Rae were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Rae were born, there have been 99 newborns who received this name.
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 only three letters, the name Rae is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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.
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 Rae 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 Rae, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rae
Rae
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
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
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. Rae sounds like this:
