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The first name 
Raja

Raja is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.

Raja is a very rare first name!

At least in the US, the name Raja is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Raja each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Raja will meet someone with the same name. So, Raja is a very special name!

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

Raja -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Raja did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Raja seemed to be more popular than ever in 2001. Although the name never ranked higher than #4,680, 53 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Raja, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

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

Raja in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Raja a few times. Among all babies it ranked #9,376 - with a total of 23 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Raja has 4 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 given names: 4.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common initial letters of first names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.

With four letters, the name Raja 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.

Thus, it follows that if 4.8% of all first names start with an R, this initial letter occurs more often than all 26 letters on average.

Other names with 
R, a, j and a

If you take all the letters in the name Raja – R, a, j and a – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Jara.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Raja

If your name is Raja 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 Raja

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

Rocket

Apple

Joker

Apple

This is how the name Raja 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 Raja in Braille?

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

Raja

Raja

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
A
J
A

Have you ever waved the name Raja

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
J
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. Raja sounds like this: