girls:
105 births since 1988
#5611 (2nd percentile)
overall:
105 births since 1988
#7634 (1st percentile)
The name Rafia is the #7,634 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 105 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 1.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,611 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 105 births since 1988.
Rafia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (first recorded for girls in 1988). Birth data for Rafia is available in 17 out of the 30 years between 1988 and 2017. 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, Rafia reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #888) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rafia".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Rafia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.5% confident that Rafia is pronounced as RA-fee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-fee-uh, at 22.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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