How Many People Are Named Rafiq?
people named Rafiq are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 858,755 people in the US has this name
Based on 412 babies named Rafiq in Social Security records from 1975 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
19 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means either "friend" or "gentle" in Arabic.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Rafiq in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Rafiq alive today is about 26 years old, and 57% are under 30. Half of them were between 16 and 36 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Rafiq first appears in the records in 1975 and was given most often in 1995, to 19 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1975 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Rafiq has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #3,214, in 1976.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #3,214 (1976) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #4,802 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Rafiq alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Rafiq were born in Pennsylvania than in any other state: about 73 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Rafiq was given about 24.2 times as often in Pennsylvania.
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