Rafe is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Rafe is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 5 out of 100,000 boys have been named Rafe. In the SmartGenius ranking, Rafe is #1,654 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rafe.
The odds of having a man or boy named Rafe in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Rafe is registered in 19 states, among which are California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho or Indiana. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Rafe live in Utah, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 21,276 men and boys in Utah for their name before you meet one who answers with Rafe.
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 Rafe 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 Rafe 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 Rafe, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Fox
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rafe
Rafe
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
F
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
F
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. Rafe sounds like this:
