girls:
756 births since 1898
#4960 (13th percentile)
overall:
756 births since 1898
#6983 (10th percentile)
The name Raffaela is the #6,983 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 756 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 9.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,960 (13.2% percentile) for all time with 756 births since 1898.
Raffaela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (first recorded for girls in 1898). Birth data for Raffaela is available in 66 out of the 126 years between 1898 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, Raffaela reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #568) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 27 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Raffaela ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 10.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raffaela".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Raffaela", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Rafaela" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Rafaela..
Our model has identified 20 different pronunciations for the name Raffaela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 15.9% confident that Raffaela is pronounced as rah-fah-EH-luh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RA-fuh-EH-luh, at 13.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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