girl's name

Raffaella

  • Origin Italian
  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 9
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 839

Raffaella is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 18 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Raffaella is a name of Italian origin.
  • Peaked in 2024, when 20 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 184,196 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1911.

Raffaella over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Raffaella by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1910s 37
1920s 41
1930s 5
1950s 13
1960s 28
1970s 49
1980s 30
1990s 19
2000s 57
2010s 103
2020s (to 2025) 101

How popular is Raffaella?

In 2025, Raffaella was given to 18 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Raffaella is used

England & Wales #2,071 14 in 2025
Canada #2,588 8 in 2024
France #6,400 5 in 2025
United States #6,427 18 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Raffaella

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Raffaella also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Raffaella over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Raffaella in other languages

The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.

German
Raphaela
Polish
Rafaela
Spanish
Rafaela
Other forms
Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
Raphaëlle Raffaela

Sibling names for Raffaella

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Raffaella — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Raffaella

How popular is the name Raffaella?

In 2025, Raffaella was given to 18 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Raffaella a girl's or a boy's name?

Raffaella is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Raffaella most popular?

Raffaella peaked in 2024, when 20 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Raffaella a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Raffaella currently ranks #2,071 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.