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The first name 
Russel

Russel is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Russel – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Russel in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Russel in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Russel by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Russel ranks at #3,620. That means there are 3,619 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 10,717 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Russel. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.

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

Russel has 6 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 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 six letters, the name Russel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Russel

If your name is Russel 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 Russel

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

Rocket

Unicorn

Sun

Sun

Elephant

Lion

This is how the name Russel 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 Russel in Braille?

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

Russel

Russel

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

R
U
S
S
E
L

Have you ever waved the name Russel

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
U
S
S
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. Russel sounds like this: