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The first name 
Raina

Raina is a female first name.

Raina is a common name for girls!

The name Raina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Raina ranks 792. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Raina. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Raina.

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

What does the name 
Raina mean?

The name Raina is an alternate spelling of Rayna, the Bulgarian variant of Regina. This is a Latin name that means ‘queen’.

Raina is also an Indian surname... referencing someone who worked in the royal court.

Raina 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 Raina 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, i, n and a

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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Raina

If your name is Raina 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 Raina

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

Rocket

Apple

Igloo

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Raina 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 Raina in Braille?

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

Raina

Raina

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
A
I
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Raina

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
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. Raina sounds like this: