Raphaelle
Raphaelle was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,886 among girls’ names; 66 Americans have been recorded with it since 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raphaelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raphaelle?
#12,886 among girls’ names, 2025
Raphaelle fell from #11,632 in 2015 to #12,886 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.0 to 4.4 per million.
9 babies in 2015, the peak
Raphaelle peaked in 2015, when 9 girls were given it, #11,632 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,886 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,041 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,894 | 4.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,789 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,032 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,632 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,271 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,871 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,785 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raphaelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raphaelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raphaelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raphaelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 66 Americans named Raphaelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 263 people named Raphaelle (249 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 44 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.0 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 943 babies since 1880, Raphaelle is the third most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 39 babies (18%), again the third most given.
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 Raphaelle
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 Raphaelle and names like it
- Compare Raphaelle and RaphaelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sRaphaelle peaked in 2015.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Raphaelle.
- Names starting with RMost given first.