Raphaella is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Raphaella in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Raphaella in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Raphaella by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Raphaella ranks at #6,759. That means there are 6,758 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 Raphaella.
The first name Raphaella is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 15 Americans in total bear this name. And these 15 women are located in only three states: Georgia, New Jersey and New York (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 Raphaella 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 Raphaella in relation to it’s female population is Georgia. And yet even there, only one in 832,057 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Raphaella.
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 nine letters, the name Raphaella is relatively long compared to other names. In fact, 5.6% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly nine letters. 92% of all first names are shorter, while not even 2.5% of all boys’ and girls’ names use ten or more letters. 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 Raphaella 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 Raphaella, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Pig
Hat
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Raphaella
Raphaella
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
P
H
A
E
L
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
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. Raphaella sounds like this:
