Raffaello

given name · Italian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Raffaello is a given name, most frequently recorded in Italy. It appears chiefly in Italian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Raphael.

rarermore common
  • BMBermuda1 in 63K
  • ITItaly1 in 148K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 270K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈157

across 9 countries

Sources
53

955 records

Official registry-verified

1 in 351K

Iceland

Meaning & origin

Raphael

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Raffaello is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy342296 rec.22Raffaello53
US United States317314 rec.5Raffaello36
DE Germany147165 rec.Raffaello39
GB United Kingdom5140 rec.listedRaffaello22
BR Brazil412 rec.1 in 5.2M41Raffaello3
AU Australia3853 rec.1Raffaello16
ES Spain346 rec.1 in 1.5M34Raffaello4
NL Netherlands309 rec.1 in 576K30Raffaello4
CH Switzerland2912 rec.Raffaello11
SE Sweden191 rec.1 in 537K191
CA Canada1610 rec.1Raffaello6
PL Poland132 rec.1 in 2.9M131

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages

  • Italian2.8K47%
  • English80814%
  • Portuguese4618%
  • French3796%
  • Spanish3626%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Italian2,77747%
English80814%
Portuguese4618%
French3796%
Spanish3626%

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

Raffaello is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name44 records spelled Raffaello189 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic

    Also written Rafael, Raphael, Ραφαηλ, Rafail, Rafayel

  • Arabic given name33 records spelled Raffaello3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Řąffãęllõ, Ràffàễllŏ

44 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.

Other recorded senses

Raffaello is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, var. regional de Raffaelo

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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

010203019401950196019701980199021 · 1961

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Raffaello in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1931–1991
Yearrecords
19319
194112
19518
196121
197111
19819
199112

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)7 years between 1931–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1400160018002000Raphael, b. 1483Raffaello da Montelupo, b. 1505Raffaello Lambruschini, b. 1788Raffaello Giovagnoli, b. 1838Raffaello Romanelli, b. 1856Rudolph Valentino, b. 1895Raffaello Matarazzo, b. 1909Raffaello Gambino, b. 1928Raffaello Caserta, b. 1972Raffaello Leonardo, b. 1973

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 37 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Raffaello
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202241
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)41#76,244
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)34#38,338
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)31#39,082
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)30#9,133
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202326#422
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)25#22,750
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)25#21,350
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)25#22,738
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)202422#492
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196121
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)19#25,407

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 81 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Raffaello?
We estimate roughly 157 people bear Raffaello (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Raffaello have the most bearers?
Raffaello is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled raffaello.
How common is Raffaello compared with other names?
In Bermuda, Raffaello is the 377th most common given name of 1,057 given names recorded there.
Is Raffaello a male or female name?
Raffaello is a male 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 Raffaello mean?
Recorded meaning: Raphael
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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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, “Raffaello” — the 377th most common given name in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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