Raffael
Raffael was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,757 among boys’ names; 120 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raffael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raffael?
#8,757 among boys’ names, 2025
Raffael entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,757 in 2025.
13 babies in 2024, the peak
Raffael peaked in 2024, when 13 boys were given it, #6,725 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,757 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,725 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,110 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,625 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,668 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,664 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #13,663 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 7 | #10,471 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 5 | #13,569 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,513 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #14,115 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,016 | 2.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,866 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,520 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,598 | 3.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,837 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raffael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raffael has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raffael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raffael, and how old are they?
An estimated 118 Americans named Raffael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 281 people named Raffael (10 women and girls, 271 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 62 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Raffael rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Raffael?
Raffael is a less common spelling of Rafael: SSA has recorded 120 Raffael and 89,947 Rafael since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 115,983 babies since 1880, Raffael is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 2,455 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Raffael
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Raffael and names like it
- Compare Raffael and RafaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRaffael peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Raffael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Raffael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.