Rafeal is a male first name.
Recently, the name Rafeal 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 boy in 100,000 has been named Rafeal. That means that a boy named Rafeal is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his 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 Rafeal.
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 Rafeal. Boys named Rafeal have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,335 Rafeal ranked higher than ever before in 1982. By comparison, there have been 80 years in which the first name Rafeal 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 sons Rafeal only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rafeal was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Rafeal. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 72 Americans who bear this name. And these 72 men and boys named Rafeal live in no more than 7 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Louisiana. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men 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 Rafeal lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Rafeal 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 boys and men named Rafeal relative to its male population is Georgia. And even there, only one male in 148,139 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Rafeal.
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 six letters, the name Rafeal 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.
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 Rafeal 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 Rafeal, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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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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. Rafeal sounds like this:
