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The first name 
Rayna

Rayna is a first name for girls.

Rayna is a common name for girls!

The name Rayna isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Rayna ranks 666. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Rayna. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Rayna.

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

What does the name 
Rayna mean?

Rayna is a Yiddish name meaning ‘clean’ or ‘pure’. It originated from the Yiddish word ‘rein’. Yiddish is a West Germanic language with Hebrew elements, that developed in the 9th century. It is spoken by Jews and still used by a few today.

The name Rayna is... also the Bulgarian form of Regina, a Latin name meaning 'queen'.

Rayna has 5 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 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 five letters, the name Rayna 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 4.1% 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.

Other names with 
R, a, y, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Rayna – R, a, y, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Rayan or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rayna

If your name is Rayna 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 Rayna

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

Rocket

Apple

Yoyo

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Rayna 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 Rayna in Braille?

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

Rayna

Rayna

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
A
Y
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Rayna

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
Y
N
A

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. Rayna sounds like this: