How Many People Are Named Rafe?
people named Rafe are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 125,933 people in the US has this name
Based on 2,935 babies named Rafe in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
179 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of RALPH. This form became common during the 17th century, reflecting the usual pronunciation.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Rafe in English. Counting Rafe and these spellings together, about 141,636 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Rafe in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Rafe alive today is about 18 years old, and 80% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 23 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Rafe first appears in the records in 1880, and 2025 was its biggest year so far, with 179 babies.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Rafe has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #887, in 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,165.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,165 |
| Best rank | #887 (1880) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,885 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Rafe alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Rafe were born in Texas than in any other state: about 143 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rafe was given 10.8 times as often in Utah, 1.9 times in Texas and 1.2 times in California.
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