Raisa is a female first name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Raisa in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Raisa in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Raisa by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Raisa ranks at #5,029. That means there are 5,028 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Raisa.
In fact, the name Raisa hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Raisa wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1988, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,356, 94 parents chose it in 1988 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Raisa, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Raisa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Raisa a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 4,546, for a total of 25 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Raisa seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Raisa 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 468 women and girls named Raisa, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 468 women and girls named Raisa live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Raisa. (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 Raisa lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Raisa 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 Raisa relative to its female population is New York. And even there, only one in 49,108 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Raisa.
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 Raisa 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.
If your name is Raisa 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 Raisa, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Raisa
Raisa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
I
S
A
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
S
A
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. Raisa sounds like this:
