Raffi
Raffi was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,780 among boys’ names; 839 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raffi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Raffi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Raffi is “a male given name from Armenian.”
From Armenian Րաֆֆի (Raffi).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Raffi?
#5,780 among boys’ names, 2025
Raffi rose from #7,413 in 2015 to #5,780 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 9.4 per million.
27 babies in 1988, the peak
Raffi peaked in 1988, when 27 boys were given it, #2,288 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,780 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,726 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,543 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,540 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,261 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,383 | 6.4 |
| 2019 | 14 | #6,325 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,614 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,429 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,901 | 10.5 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,413 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,656 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,116 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,417 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,900 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,623 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,826 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,698 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,185 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,301 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,132 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,720 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,612 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,145 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,334 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,700 | 5.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,694 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,382 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,552 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,105 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,037 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,299 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 22 | #3,117 | 11.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,080 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,082 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,270 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,663 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 27 | #2,288 | 14.1 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,673 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,208 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,979 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,623 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,811 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,677 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,407 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,786 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,009 | 5.8 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,354 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #3,009 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,309 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,723 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 16 | #2,529 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,477 | 10.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,588 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,598 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,016 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,025 | 3.5 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,744 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,307 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,223 | 4.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,934 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Raffi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raffi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raffi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raffi, and how old are they?
An estimated 801 Americans named Raffi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 15 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,471 people named Raffi (4 women and girls, 1,467 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 729 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 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 Raffi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,161 | 3.7× |
Where Raffi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raffi is most over-represented in California: since 1962 it was given 3.7 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 Raffi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 5,272 babies since 1880, Raffi is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 314 babies (5.1%), the fifth 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 Raffi
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 Raffi and names like it
- Compare Raffi and RafeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRaffi peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raffi since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Raffi.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Raffi alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.