Raphaela
- #10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1915 · 7 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 499since 1915
Raphaela over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Raphaela has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #7,250 | 15 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 |
| 2009 | #8,888 | 13 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #10,567 | 7 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | — | |
| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
| 1970 | — | |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
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| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
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| 1954 | #4,655 | 7 |
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| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
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| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 |
| 1923 | #3,971 | 7 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
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| 1915 | #3,434 | 7 |
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First appearance
1915
The first year at least five girls were named Raphaela! It came in at #3,434, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1921, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Raphaela is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Raphaela in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Raphaela
Momentum · girls
Falling
- 2,474 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #10,917)
- 3,358 spots since 2020 (#7,559 → #10,917)
- 51 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1915 at #3,434 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1916, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 93,264
- Highest: 1 in 93,264 girls born in 2016 were named Raphaela (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,434 in 1915, was only 1 in 140,550 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 23.2% of all girls named Raphaela (116) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,434 (1915) | #3,434 |
| 1920s | 23 | #3,971 (1923) | #4,551 |
| 1930s | 11 | #3,848 (1931) | #4,199 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 12 | #4,655 (1954) | #5,379 |
| 1960s | 11 | #6,592 (1963) | #6,605 |
| 1970s | 46 | #6,484 (1975) | #7,513 |
| 1980s | 42 | #7,691 (1988) | #8,939 |
| 1990s | 65 | #6,641 (1995) | #11,074 |
| 2000s | 95 | #8,027 (2000) | #11,004 |
| 2010s | 116 | #6,401 (2016) | #9,430 |
| 2020s | 71 | #7,250 (2021) | #8,723 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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