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Raffaele

#5,001 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Raphael

Raffaele has been given to 1,079 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #5,001 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1969, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Raffaele, 2025

1 in 166,000

Raffaele over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raffaele: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Raphael

Hebrew

What Raffaele means

Raffaele is a form of Raphael.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Raffaele → Raphael. The family’s meaning is “God cures/has healed”, recorded in English with the source elements Rāfāʾēl.

Origin, language, and formation

Raffaele is used in Italian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Raphael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Raffaele is pronounced /raf.faˈɛ.le/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,079 boys were recorded with the name Raffaele between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1969; its best national rank was #1,339 in 1908.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,207 in 2020 to #5,001 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,230 in 2015 to #5,001 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Raffaele?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,001
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raffaele sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raffaele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raffaeles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raffaele was born before 1983 — so the typical Raffaele is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
950
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Choose a decade

1970s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (193).

Is Raffaele 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
+387
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,206
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,229
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 1969 (24)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,339
1908

Spellings of Raffaele

Raffaele is not the most common spelling — Rafael is, with 98.8% against Raffaele's 1.2%.

  • Rafael98.8%89,379
  • Raffaele1.2%1,079

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 Raffaele is used

Across 1910–2025, Raffaele was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 60,629 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Raffaele has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raffaele around the world

Where Raffaele 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • France
    1953–2025
    #2,243
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1948–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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.

Raffaele by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,001
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,206
Best rank ever
#1,339
1908
Peak year
1969
24 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,079
Count in 2025
20

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Raffaele

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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