Raynard is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Raynard in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Raynard in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Raynard by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Raynard ranks at #6,073. That means there are 6,072 more common boys 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 Raynard.
The odds of having a man or boy named Raynard in your home state are about the same as the chance for a white Christmas in New York City – in both cases they are less than 30%. More precisely, the first name Raynard is registered in 17 states, among which are Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia or Hawaii. In proportion to the male population, most men and boys with the first name Raynard live in Hawaii, but even there the name is rather special – on average, you would have to ask 25,870 men and boys in Hawaii for their name before you meet one who answers with Raynard.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter R is quite common as an initial letter for boys’ names. To be precise, 5.2% of all boys' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With seven letters, the name Raynard has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
Therefore: As 5.2% of all boys' names start with R, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with an R, Robert is the most common.
If your name is Raynard 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 Raynard, you can simply say:
Rocket
Apple
Yoyo
Nut
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Raynard
Raynard
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
A
Y
N
A
R
D
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
R
D
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. Raynard sounds like this:
