Raffaella
given name · Italian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Raffaella is a given name, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Cyprus it is the 96th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Italian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Raffaele or Raffaello.
- BRBrazil1 in 667◐
- CYCyprus1 in 673
- ITItaly1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈361K ●
- #638 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 213 ●
- 1 in 667 ◐
across 12 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
133K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rafaela in BR Brazil, ES Spain, US United States and 7 more, Rafaella in CL Chile, EC Ecuador, PE Peru and 3 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●
- Latin[in●
- AncientGreek●
a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Raffaele or Raffaello
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #127 | 317,643△ | 65K rec. | 1 in 667 | 318K | Rafaela | 198 |
| IT Italy | #234 | 36,896 | 27K rec. | — | 111 | Raffaella | 165 |
| ES Spain | — | 23,251△ | 3.4K rec. | 1 in 2.2K | 25K | Rafaela | 80 |
| US United States | — | 10,480 | 20K rec. | 1 in 32K | 10K | Rafaela | 213 |
| CL Chile | #767 | 7,067 | 216 rec. | — | 452 | Rafaella | 39 |
| PT Portugal | #165 | 5,971 | 2.1K rec. | — | listed | Rafaela | 102 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 5,081△ | 52 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 5.1K | Rafaella | 21 |
| PE Peru | — | 4,703 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Rafaella | 34 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,703 | 3.7K rec. | — | listed | Rafaela | 31 |
| CY Cyprus | #96 | 1,882△ | 247 rec. | 1 in 673 | 1.9K | Ραφαελα | 29 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,598 | 747 rec. | — | 96 | Rafaella | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,473 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Raffaella | 59 |
Roughly 318K people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 667). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Italian30K50%
- German7.5K13%
- English6.9K11%
- Portuguese4.7K8%
- Spanish4K7%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Italian | 29,764 | 50% |
| German | 7,515 | 13% |
| English | 6,868 | 11% |
| Portuguese | 4,699 | 8% |
| Spanish | 4,026 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Raffaella is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Dio ha guarito
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1911 | 7 |
| 1912 | 7 |
| 1917 | 8 |
| 1918 | 7 |
| 1919 | 8 |
| 1920 | 8 |
| 1921 | 6 |
| 1922 | 9 |
| 1923 | 6 |
| 1926 | 5 |
| 1927 | 7 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1961 | 7 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 9 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1972 | 7 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1987 | 7 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1994 | 9 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 5 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 8 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 8 |
| 2008 | 7 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 6 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 14 |
| 2014 | 13 |
| 2015 | 10 |
| 2016 | 7 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 14 |
| 2020 | 13 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 20 |
| 2025 | 18 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 56 years between 1911–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Raffaella Carràb. 1943ITItalian singer, actress and television presenter (1943–2021)
- Raffaella De Laurentiisb. 1954ITItalian film producer
- Raffaella Lebboronib. 1961ITItalian actress
- Raffaella Baracchib. 1964ITItalian actress
- Raffaella Reggib. 1965ITItalian tennis player
- Raffaella Petrinib. 1969ITItalian Vatican religious
- Raffaella Ponzob. 1977ITItalian actress and journalist
- Raffaella Reab. 1982ITItalian actress
- Raffaella Ficob. 1988ITItalian female model
- Raffaella Modugnob. 1988ITItalian model
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●
Attested in 45 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 761 | #15,188 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 280 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 279 | #20,021 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 241 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 227 | #8,188 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 192 | #14,464 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 188 | #4,295 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 185 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 163 | #28,368 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 158 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 121 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 118 | #193 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 324 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Raffaella?
- We estimate roughly 361 thousand people bear Raffaella (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Raffaella have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 318 thousand people bear Raffaella in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rafaela.
- Where is Raffaella most common?
- Raffaella is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 667 people carrying it.
- How common is Raffaella compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Raffaella is the 127th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.
- Is Raffaella a male or female name?
- Raffaella 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.
- What does the name Raffaella mean?
- Recorded meaning: a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Raffaele or Raffaello
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Raffaella” — the 127th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.