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Rafik

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Rafiq

Rafik has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 1984. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Rafik, 2013

1 in 729,000

Rafik over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rafik: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Rafiq

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rafik means

Rafik is a alternate transcription of Rafiq.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rafik is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ra.ˈfiːq/ for Rafik.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rafik → Rafiq. The family’s meaning is “friend”, recorded in the naming reference for Rafiq.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rafiq.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 58 boys were recorded with the name Rafik between 1984 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,060 in 1984.

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.

How common is Rafik?

Rafik had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among boys only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rafik 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rafik. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rafiks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rafik was born before 1999 — so the typical Rafik is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
58
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Rafik 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (9)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,060
1984

Spellings of Rafik

Rafik is not the most common spelling — Malik is, with 63.9% against Rafik's 0.07%.

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.

Rafik around the world

Where Rafik 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
    2005–2021
    #3,451
    in 2021
  • France
    1956–2025
    #4,250
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2009
    #2,692
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rafik by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,060
1984
Peak year
2006
9 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
58
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rafik

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

RafanRafsanRafidRafaRafayRafatRaferRafelRaffaelRafeeqRafielRafalRaffiRafuelRafordRafiqRafRafiRafeeRaffyRaffertyRaffealRaffieRafeek

Sibling names for Rafik

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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