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The first name 
Raiford

Raiford is a first name for boys.

Raiford – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Raiford 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 Raiford. That means that a boy named Raiford 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 Raiford.

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

Raiford -
once in a blue moon

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 to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Raiford. Boys named Raiford have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,467 Raiford ranked higher than ever in 1931. By comparison, there have been 81 years in which the first name Raiford 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 Raiford only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!

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

Raiford -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Raiford is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Raiford can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Raiford. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Raiford living in one state or another. (If your name is Raiford and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Raiford is in Georgia, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Georgia, only 0.00092% of all male residents are called Raiford – that’s just one in 108,395! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 41 men going by that name. So, if your name is Raiford, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Raiford has 7 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 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 seven letters, the name Raiford has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Raiford

If your name is Raiford 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 Raiford

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

Rocket

Apple

Igloo

Fox

Orange

Rocket

Dinosaur

This is how the name Raiford 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 Raiford in Braille?

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

Raiford

Raiford

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
A
I
F
O
R
D

Have you ever waved the name Raiford

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
I
F
O
R
D

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. Raiford sounds like this: