Rafay
#10,425 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rafay has been given to 293 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #10,425 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Rafay, 2025
1 in 474,000
Rafay 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rafay?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,425
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rafay 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rafay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rafays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rafay was born before 2012 — so the typical Rafay is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 35.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 293
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (103).
Is Rafay 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
- −3,701
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,885
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,521
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.70×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.8%
- Peak was 2009 (22)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.6% average annual change
Spellings of Rafay
Rafay is not the most common spelling — Randy is, with 50.4% against Rafay's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Rafay is used
Across 1910–2025, Rafay was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,527,034 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Rafay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rafay around the world
Where Rafay 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 & Wales1999–2025#2,014in 2025
- Scotland2013–2025#762in 2025
- Canada2005–2024#1,964in 2024
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rafay by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rafay
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rafay
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.