Raffaela — girls' name

What the Data Says About Raffaela

The Social Security Administration has registered 756 babies named Raffaela between 1898 and 2023, spanning 126 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Raffaela currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 34 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Raffaela performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 221 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Raffaela shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 332 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Massachusetts and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Raffaela in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Raffaela 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 756 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.