Ramie is a unisex first name, but it has been primarily given to girls for a number of years.
At least in the US, the name Ramie is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Ramie each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Ramie will meet someone with the same name. So, Ramie is a very special name!
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 Ramie. Children named Ramie have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,119 Ramie ranked higher than ever before in 1976. By comparison, there have been 78 years in which the first name Ramie 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 babies Ramie only once in a blue moon, so kids and adults with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ramie was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
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 five letters, the name Ramie 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 4.8% of all first names start with an R, this initial letter occurs more often than all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Ramie 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 Ramie, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Mouse
Igloo
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ramie
Ramie
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
M
I
E
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
I
E
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. Ramie sounds like this:
