Rafaella

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Rafaela in BR Brazil, ES Spain, US United States and 7 more, Raffaella in IT Italy, AT Austria, GB United Kingdom and 6 more and Ραφαελα in CY Cyprus.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Rafaella is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name33K records spelled Rafaella5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Ecuador, Netherlands

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Rafaëlla

• French given name1.1K records spelled Rafaella3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Rafaëlla

• a separate given name526 records spelled Rafaella2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Rafaëlla

• Italian given name315 records spelled Rafaella2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, Cyprus, Peru

  Also written Rafaëlla

• Finnish given name175 records spelled Rafaella3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland

  Also written Räfäëllä

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 43 years between 1978–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Rafa Kalimannb. 1993BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian actress, presenter, digital communicator, model, businesswoman and missionary
• Rafaella Costab. 1994CYCypriot singer
• Rafaella Zannettoub. 1997gymnast
• Rafaella Maiab. 2002BRBrazilian actress and model
• Rafaella C. GarbinBrazilian herpetologist
• Rafaella G. Santosentomologist
• Rafaella C Penteadoresearcher

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 323 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Rafaella?

We estimate roughly 361 thousand people bear Rafaella (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Rafaella have the most bearers?

We estimate about 318 thousand people bear Rafaella in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rafaela.

Where is Rafaella most common?

Rafaella is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 667 people carrying it.

How common is Rafaella compared with other names?

In Brazil, Rafaella is the 127th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Rafaella a male or female name?

Rafaella is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.