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The first name 
Rakel

Rakel is a female first name.

Rakel – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Rakel 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 girl in 100,000 has been named Rakel. That means that a girl named Rakel is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her 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 Rakel.

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

Rakel -
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 be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Rakel. Girls named Rakel have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 6,181 Rakel ranked higher than ever before in 1999. By comparison, there have been 107 years in which the first name Rakel 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 daughters Rakel only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!

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

Rakel -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Rakel is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Rakel can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Rakel. 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 women and girls called Rakel living in one state or another (if your name is Rakel 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 Rakel is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all female residents are named Rakel – that’s just one in 2,982,583! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 women with that name. So, if your name is Rakel, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Rakel 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 Rakel 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, k, e and l

If you take all the letters in the name Rakel – R, a, k, e and l – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Larke or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rakel

If your name is Rakel 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 Rakel

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

Rocket

Apple

Koala

Elephant

Lion

This is how the name Rakel 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 Rakel in Braille?

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

Rakel

Rakel

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
A
K
E
L

Have you ever waved the name Rakel

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
K
E
L

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. Rakel sounds like this: