Rafaela — #3075 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rafaela

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,456 babies named Rafaela between 1887 and 2024, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rafaela currently holds the #3075 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 60 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rafaela performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 437 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Rafaela shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,029 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Rafaela in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rafaela in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,456 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.