Girls' name · since 2025
Rafah
6 babies named Rafah in U.S. Social Security records since 2025, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #61,156 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,892 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 6
- born since 2025
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rafah currently ranks #14892 among girls' names in America, with 6 babies recorded since 2025.
Social Security Administration records show Rafah recorded 6 times among girls since 2025, holding rank #14892 nationally today, ahead of 14% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2025 to 2025.
- #61,156 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,892 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 6 born since 2025
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rafah ranks #61,156 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,892 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 6 born since 2025, peaking in the 2020s.
- #61,156 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,892 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 6
- born since 2025
- 2020s
- peak decade
Rafah's 6 recorded births place it above 14.15% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Rafah compares
6 1st percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Rafah's all-time total is 98% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Rafah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 6 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 6 | 21 | 19,840 |
Rafah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 1 years of records
Rafah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (6 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Rafah's strongest decade.
6 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Rafah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 6 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Rafah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2025–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Rafah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.