Rafia

girls:

105 births since 1988

#5611 (2nd percentile)

overall:

105 births since 1988

#7634 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rafia".

1988 2017 19882017

Key Statistics

Total Births
105
Peak Births
11
Peak Year
2002
First Recorded
1988
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#807
Current Rank
#949
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Rafia

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Rafia. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 37.5% confident that Rafia is pronounced as RA-fee-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-fee-uh, at 22.5% confidence.

RA-fee-uh (3 syllables)
37.5% confidence
R AE1 F IY0 AH0
RAH-fee-uh (3 syllables)
22.5% confidence
R AA1 F IY0 AH0
ruh-FEE-uh (3 syllables)
22.5% confidence
R AH0 F IY1 AH0
rah-FEE-uh (3 syllables)
17.5% confidence
R AA0 F IY1 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Rafia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Rafia, please vote using the thumbs up button.

RA-fee-ehl (3 syllables)
8 names 109.9k births
R AE1 F IY0 EH0 L
RA-fee-uhl (3 syllables)
11 names 27.4k births
R AE1 F IY0 AH0 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like R AE1 F IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.