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The first name 
Raleigh

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

Raleigh – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Raleigh in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 6 out of 100,000 children are currently called Raleigh. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Raleigh at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Raleigh is number *** on the list of most common first names.

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

Raleigh -
evergreen, but special

For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their child Raleigh annualy. This means that there have been kids named Raleigh who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus people named Raleigh have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Raleigh even more than any other time: in 1885, it holds its present record of rank #812 in the list of the most popular first names.

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

How popular was Raleigh 2022 among young parents?

The first name Raleigh has never been ranked higher than #812. In 2022, it rivaled the 2,402 names that preceded it on the list. In total, 118 kids named Raleigh were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Raleigh were born, there have been 100 newborns who received this name.

Raleigh 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 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 seven letters, the name Raleigh 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.

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, l, e, i, g and h

If you take all the letters in the name Raleigh – R, a, l, e, i, g and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Arleigh or Raliegh.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Raleigh

If your name is Raleigh 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 Raleigh

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

Rocket

Apple

Lion

Elephant

Igloo

Goat

Hat

This is how the name Raleigh 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 Raleigh in Braille?

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

Raleigh

Raleigh

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

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A
L
E
I
G
H

Have you ever waved the name Raleigh

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
L
E
I
G
H

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. Raleigh sounds like this: