Real is a first name for boys, occasionally also given to girls.
Recently, the name Real has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Real. That means that a boy named Real is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Real.
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 Real. Boys named Real have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,635 Real ranked higher than ever in 1941. By comparison, there have been 93 years in which the first name Real 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 2018. In general, parents name their sons Real only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Real was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Real continues to be a precious jewel: 10 newborns were named Real that year, ranking #6,627 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Real, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Real is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 34 Americans in total bear this name. And these 34 men are located in only three states: Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Real 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 boys and men named Real in relation to it’s male population is Maine. And yet even there, only one in 32,248 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Real present.
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 four letters, the name Real is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.
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 Real 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 Real, you can simply say:
Rocket
Elephant
Apple
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Real
Real
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
R
E
A
L
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
E
A
L
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. Real sounds like this:
