Raphaela is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Raphaela in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Raphaela in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Raphaela by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Raphaela ranks at #7,704. That means there are 7,703 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 Raphaela.
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 to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Raphaela. Girls named Raphaela have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 3,040 Raphaela ranked higher than ever in 1915. By comparison, there have been 87 years in which the first name Raphaela 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 1991. In general, parents name their daughters Raphaela only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Raphaela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Raphaela continues to be a precious jewel: 10 newborns were named Raphaela that year, ranking #8,408 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Raphaela, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a woman or girl named Raphaela is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Raphaela can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Raphaela. 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 Raphaela living in one state or another (if your name is Raphaela 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 Raphaela is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00004% of all female residents are named Raphaela – that’s just one in 2,386,663! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 women with that name. So, if your name is Raphaela, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
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 eight letters, the name Raphaela is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Raphaela 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 Raphaela, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Pig
Hat
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Raphaela
Raphaela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
P
H
A
E
L
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
P
H
A
E
L
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. Raphaela sounds like this:
