Rafaella
#4,436 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rafaella has been given to 789 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #4,436 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 49 recorded.
Babies named Rafaella, 2025
1 in 104,000
Rafaella over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rafaella?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 104,000
- 32 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 50,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,436
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 71,810 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rafaella sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 71,810 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rafaella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rafaellas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rafaella was born before 2015 — so the typical Rafaella is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 39.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 89.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 789
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 39.9% of all recorded uses (315).
Is Rafaella rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −419
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −297
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +652
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.19×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 65.3%
- Peak was 2022 (49)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.9% average annual change
Spellings of Rafaella
Rafaella is not the most common spelling — Rafaela is, with 62.5% against Rafaella's 14.0%.
Where Rafaella is used
Across 1910–2025, Rafaella was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 220,150 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2Massachusetts1 in 100,000
- 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rafaella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rafaella around the world
Where Rafaella ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1996–2025#4,201in 2025
- France1985–2024#4,535in 2024
- Canada2006–2024#3,457in 2024
- South Australia2012–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rafaella by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rafaella
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rafaella
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.