girls:
3.4k births since 1887
#2968 (48th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1887
#4687 (39th percentile)
The name Rafaela is the #4,687 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,404 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 39.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,968 (48.1% percentile) for all time with 3,404 births since 1887.
Rafaela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (first recorded for girls in 1887). Birth data for Rafaela is available in 132 out of the 137 years between 1887 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Rafaela reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #559) with 43 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 68 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Rafaela ranks #904 for girls (4.5% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 40.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rafaela".
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Our model has identified 19 different pronunciations for the name Rafaela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.5% confident that Rafaela is pronounced as rah-fah-EH-luh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ruh-FEH-luh, at 15.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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