Rafî
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rafî is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic رَافِع (rāfiʕ, “hoister, exalter, raiser”) or رَفِيع (rafīʕ, “elevated, high, noble”). This surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.7Kfew records
- BHBahrain≈1 in 8.3Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rafî itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈79,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rafi in IN India, US United States, PK Pakistan and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Arabic رَافِع (rāfiʕ, “hoister, exalter, raiser”) or رَفِيع (rafīʕ, “elevated, high, noble”). This surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rafî counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #242 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | listed | Rafi | 91 |
| IN India | — | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 739 | Rafi | 131 |
| PK Pakistan | #431 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Rafi | 73 |
| AF Afghanistan | #245 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Rafi | 24 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #831 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Rafi | 52 |
| US United States | — | 1,491 | 1 in 223K | 1.5K | Rafi | 238 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #512 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Rafi | 72 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Rafi | 41 |
| BH Bahrain | #293 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Rafi | 17 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rafî mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic رَافِع (rāfiʕ, “hoister, exalter, raiser”) or رَفِيع (rafīʕ, “elevated, high, noble”). This surname is predominantly found in Bangladesh. Recorded by Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and 2 other sources.
- Is Rafî a male or female name?
- Rafî 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.
- In which country does Rafî have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 79 thousand people named Rafî in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rafi.
- How common is the name Rafî?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,491 people named Rafî in 2020, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
- How common is Rafî compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Rafî is the 242nd most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raf%C3%AEThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Rafî” — the 242nd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.