Raffaella

#6,496 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Raphael

Raffaella has been given to 483 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #6,496 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Raffaella, 2025

1 in 184,000

Raffaella over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raffaella: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Raphael

Hebrew

What Raffaella means

Raffaella is a feminine form of Raphael.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Raffaella is used in Italian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Raphael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Raffaella is pronounced /raf.faˈɛl.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 483 girls were recorded with the name Raffaella between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,150 in 1911.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,307 in 2020 to #6,496 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,696 in 2015 to #6,496 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.

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How common is Raffaella?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 184,000; 18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 89,300; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #6,496; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 127,662 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Raffaella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raffaella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raffaellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raffaella was born before 2004 — so the typical Raffaella is around 21 today.

Median birth year: 2004; About 21 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 54.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 400; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (103).

Is Raffaella 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: −390; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,811; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: +4,200; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.80×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 90.0%; Peak was 2024 (20)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,150; 1911

Spellings of Raffaella

Raffaella is not the most common spelling — Rafaela is, with 63.4% against Raffaella's 8.7%.

Rafaela63.4%3,516
Rafaella14.2%789
Raffaela13.6%756
Raffaella8.7%483

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 Raffaella is used

Across 1910–2025, Raffaella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 892,331 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —
2Florida1 in —
3New York1 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. Raffaella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raffaella around the world

Where Raffaella 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
1998–2025
#2,006
in 2025
France
1962–2025
#5,273
in 2025
Canada
1997–2024
#2,463
in 2024
South Australia
1957–2003
#739
in 2003

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.

Raffaella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #6,496
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,811
Best rank ever: #2,150; 1911
Peak year: 2024; 20 that year
First recorded: 1911
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 483
Count in 2025: 18

Names similar to Raffaella

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

Sibling names for Raffaella

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

For a sister

Annabell Leonor Karleigh Adelle Keren Kendyl Anabel Hayleigh

For a brother

Evans Kale Hamilton Aaden Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah

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