Rafsan
#8,083 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rafsan has been given to 65 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #8,083 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Rafsan, 2025
1 in 332,000
Rafsan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Rafsan?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,083
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rafsan 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rafsan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rafsans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rafsan was born before 2022 — so the typical Rafsan is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 72.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 65
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 72.3% of all recorded uses (47).
Is Rafsan 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
- +3,925
- Places climbed
- 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
- 71.4%
- Peak was 2023 (14)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.0% average annual change
Spellings of Rafsan
Rafsan is not the most common spelling — Hassan is, with 24.1% against Rafsan's 0.13%.
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 Rafsan is used
Across 1910–2025, Rafsan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,024,911 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Rafsan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rafsan around the world
Where Rafsan 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 & Wales2010–2025#2,664in 2025
- France2023–2025#4,106in 2025
- Canada2018–2024#3,231in 2024
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.
Rafsan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rafsan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rafsan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.