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The first name 
Ricarda

Ricarda is a female first name.

Ricarda – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Ricarda 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 girl in 100,000 has been named Ricarda. That means that a girl named Ricarda is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her 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 Ricarda.

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

Ricarda -
swimming against the tide

If your name is Ricarda your parents may be very proud to let their daughter swim against the tide: The name Ricarda never ranked higher than position 1,738 in our statistics, and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea of naming their daughter Ricarda. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1910 to choose the name more often than usual - only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Ricarda because that was several decades ago - unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in the neighborhood.

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

2022 - looking for Ricarda?

As in the last century, Ricarda still proves to be very exceptional. In 2022, for example, it was not given once in the entire U.S. - or, to be more precise, it was given at most four times, because names given less than five times in one year are not included in the official statistics. So if you know someone named Ricarda who was born in 2022, please let us know - we would be very interested in hearing about it so that we can provide you with even more accurate statistics.

Ricarda -
at home in California and Texas

Meeting a woman or girl named Ricarda is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Ricarda can be found in only two: California and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Ricarda. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Ricarda living in one state or another (if your name is Ricarda and you live outside of California or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Ricarda is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00144% of all female residents are named Ricarda – that’s just one in 69,599! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 171 women with that name. So, if your name is Ricarda, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Ricarda has 7 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 seven letters, the name Ricarda 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.

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, i, c, a, r, d and a

If you take all the letters in the name Ricarda – R, i, c, a, r, d and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Darrica or Dacarri.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Ricarda

If your name is Ricarda 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 Ricarda

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

Rocket

Igloo

Cat

Apple

Rocket

Dinosaur

Apple

This is how the name Ricarda 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 Ricarda in Braille?

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

Ricarda

Ricarda

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
I
C
A
R
D
A

Have you ever waved the name Ricarda

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
I
C
A
R
D
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. Ricarda sounds like this: