Rama is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Rama in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Rama in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Rama by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Rama ranks at #6,125. That means there are 6,124 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 Rama.
If your name is Rama your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Rama never ranked higher than position 1,411 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Rama. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1897 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Rama because that was a veeeeery long time ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Rama was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Rama still proves to be exceptional. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 21 times in the entire U.S. So, a Rama from 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The first name Rama is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 54 Americans in total bear this name. And these 54 women are located in only four states: California, Illinois, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Rama and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Rama in relation to it’s female population is Illinois. And yet even there, only one in 344,032 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Rama.
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 four letters, the name Rama 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 4.1% 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 Rama 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 Rama, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Mouse
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Rama
Rama
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
M
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
M
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. Rama sounds like this:
