How Many People Are Named Raffaela?
people named Raffaela are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 1,827,726 people in the US has this name
Based on 756 babies named Raffaela in Social Security records from 1898 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
๐๐ Very Rare
Peak Year
34 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
๐ Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
German feminine form of RAPHAEL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Raffaela in English. Counting Raffaela and these spellings together, about 636 people alive in the US have the name.
โง Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Raffaela in the records were girls.
๐ฅ Age Distribution
The average person named Raffaela alive today is about 61 years old, and 56% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 49 and 82 in 2025.
๐ Popularity Over Time
Raffaela first appears in the records in 1898 and was given most often in 1922, to 34 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1898 to 2023
๐ Rank History
Raffaela has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,397, in 1917.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,397 (1917) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,839 in the 1920s |
๐ State-Wise Distribution
People named Raffaela alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Raffaela were born in New York than in any other state: about 52 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Raffaela was given about 10.1 times as often in New York.
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