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The first name 
Raena

Raena is a first name for girls.

When two girls called Raena meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Raena is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Raena. In the SmartGenius ranking, Raena is #3,575 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Raena.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Raena

Raena -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Raena 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), Raena seemed to be more popular than ever in 2005. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,713, 55 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Raena, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Raena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Raena in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Raena a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #3,718 - with a total of 34 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.

Raena -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Raena 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 153 women and girls named Raena, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 153 women and girls named Raena live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Raena. (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 Raena lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Raena 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 Raena relative to its female population is California. And even there, only one in 152,173 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Raena.

Raena has 5 letters 
and begins with an R

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 five letters, the name Raena is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.

Other names with 
R, a, e, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Raena – R, a, e, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Narae or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Raena

If your name is Raena 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...

This is how you spell the name Raena

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Raena, you can simply say:

Rocket

Apple

Elephant

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Raena is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Raena in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Raena

Raena

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Raena

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Raena is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

R
A
E
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Raena

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
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

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. Raena sounds like this: