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The first name 
Rebel

Rebel is a name for all genders, somewhat more commonly used for girls.

Rebel – well-known but still special!

Few children have been named Rebel in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 children are currently called Rebel. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Rebel at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Rebel is number *** on the list of most common first names.

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

Rebel -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Rebel did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Rebel seemed to be more popular than ever in 2021. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,332, 185 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Rebel, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Rebel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Rebel in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Rebel a few times. Among all babies it ranked #3,453 - with a total of 105 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Rebel 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 given names: 4.8% of all common first names in the US begin with this letter. The most common initial letters of first names are A and J, while U and X are the least common initials of first names.

With five letters, the name Rebel 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 4.8% of all first names start with an R, this initial letter occurs more often than all 26 letters on average.

Other names with 
R, e, b, e and l

If you take all the letters in the name Rebel – R, e, b, e and l – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Elber or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Rebel

If your name is Rebel 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 Rebel

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

Rocket

Elephant

Butterfly

Elephant

Lion

This is how the name Rebel 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 Rebel in Braille?

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

Rebel

Rebel

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
E
B
E
L

Have you ever waved the name Rebel

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
B
E
L

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. Rebel sounds like this: