Raffaele
Raffaele was given to 20 boys in 2025, #5,001 among boys’ names; 1,079 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raffaele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raffaele mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Raffaele is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Raphael”
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew רָפָאֵל (Rāfāʾēl).
/raf.faˈɛ.le/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raffaele?
#5,001 among boys’ names, 2025
Raffaele rose from #6,230 in 2015 to #5,001 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 11.7 per million.
24 babies in 1969, the peak
Raffaele peaked in 1969, when 24 boys were given it, #1,710 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,001 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,388 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,430 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,630 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,802 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,207 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,686 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 12 | #7,018 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,995 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,493 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,230 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,427 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,450 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,559 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,495 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,985 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,351 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,642 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,184 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,355 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,130 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,866 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,685 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,411 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,328 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,327 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,391 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,149 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,882 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,812 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,951 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,220 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 18 | #3,608 | 9.2 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,510 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,009 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 21 | #3,030 | 10.2 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,575 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,384 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,856 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,856 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 19 | #2,678 | 10.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,438 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,761 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,941 | 8.8 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,861 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,063 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,444 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 22 | #2,186 | 13.4 |
| 1977 | 23 | #2,113 | 14.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,308 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,112 | 14.1 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,101 | 13.4 |
| 1973 | 21 | #2,021 | 13.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,951 | 7.4 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,347 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,478 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 24 | #1,710 | 13.4 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,281 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,110 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,111 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,439 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,781 | 10.5 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,642 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,237 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,850 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,649 | 5.2 |
| 1959 | 9 | #2,986 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,367 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,459 | 3.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,952 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,161 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,604 | 4.5 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,086 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 7 | #3,777 | 6.2 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,417 | 11.9 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,469 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,797 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,069 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,663 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,533 | 11.9 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,369 | 5.6 |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,420 | 13.0 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,074 | 16.8 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,851 | 20.9 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,339 | 38.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raffaele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raffaele has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raffaele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raffaele, and how old are they?
An estimated 883 Americans named Raffaele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 18 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,420 people named Raffaele (15 women and girls, 1,405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 829 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Where are babies named Raffaele born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 276 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| New Jersey | 23 | #1,146 | 0.7× |
Where Raffaele is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raffaele is most over-represented in New York: since 1910 it was given 3.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Raffaele with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Raffaele
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.
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- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raffaele since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Raffaele: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Raffaele.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Raffaele alive today were born 1965-1980.
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