Rafal — boys' name

What the Data Says About Rafal

The Social Security Administration has registered 194 babies named Rafal between 1977 and 2009, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Rafal currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Rafal performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Rafal shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Rafal in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Rafal 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 194 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.