Rafaella — #3991 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Rafaella

The Social Security Administration has registered 757 babies named Rafaella between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Rafaella currently holds the #3991 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 49 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rafaella performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 315 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Rafaella shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 67 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Rafaella in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rafaella 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 757 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.