Name meaning & stats
Rafaela
Rafaela. 2,403 US babies since 1940, peak 2011.
What it means
No agreed meaning on record
In US birth records
Peak year: 2011
2,403 US babies were named Rafaela between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Rafaela (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 52% of the family
- Rafaela 52%
- Rafaella 17%
- Raphaela 10%
- Raffaella 9%
- Raphaella 8%
- Raffaela 4%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2011)