Raffaele
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Italian form of Raphael, name of one of the archangels
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/raffaɛle/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raffaele is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 90th most common given name.
- ITItaly≈1 in 554(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 62K
- USUnited States1 in 234K
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 Raffaele 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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 554 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Italian form of Raphael, name of one of the archangels. Also: Raffaello. Feminine form: Raffaella.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raffaele 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #90 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 554 | 829 | Raffaele | 219 |
| US United States | — | 1,420 | 1 in 234K | 1.4K | Raffaele | 240 |
| CH Switzerland | #864 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | 95 | Raffaele | 72 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,122as Raffael | 1 in 189K | 1.1K | Raffaele | 66 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 340 | Raffaele | 197 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 37 | Raffaele | 43 |
| MD Moldova | — | 52 | 1 in 65K | 52 | — | 1 |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Raffaele is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Raphael
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Ebraico Rapha. e1 = Dio è il guaritore. 24 ottobre. Gogn. Raffdle (lombardo); Faelli, Raffa. Raffini (in concorrenza con Serafino), Faelutti (friulano; può anche essere una variante di Faedutti. Faidutti = da Fahdis, n. d. 1.). Ragimbert,~,
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, Ebraico Rapha-El: «Dio è il guaritore».
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, dall'ebraico Rafa'el, 'Dio ha guarito'.
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
In Italian, forma ital. de Raphael
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Raffaele Riariob. 1461ITItalian Catholic cardinal (1461-1521)
- Leo XIIIb. 1810ITnot in their usual namePope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903 (1810–1903)
- Raffaele Cadornab. 1815ITItalian general (1815-1897)
- Tito Schipab. 1888ITnot in their usual nameItalian tenor (1889-1965)
- Raffaele Espositob. 1900ITItalian chef
- Raf Valloneb. 1916ITnot in their usual nameItalian actor (1916-2002)
- Raffaele La Capriab. 1922ITItalian novelist and screenwriter (1922–2022)
- Renato Martinob. 1932ITnot in their usual nameItalian Roman Catholic cardinal (1932–2024)
- Raffaele Fittob. 1969ITItalian politician
- Raphael Gualazzib. 1981ITnot in their usual nameItalian singer and pianist (1981-)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,692 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 829 | #48 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 340 | #2,945 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 179 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 119 | #27,483 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 85 | #39,228 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #27,483 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 52 | #1,318 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 15 | #9,692 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Raffaele?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,420 people named Raffaele in 2020, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
- How common is Raffaele compared with other names?
- In Italy, Raffaele is the 90th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
- Where does the name Raffaele come from?
- Italian form of Raphael, name of one of the archangels. Also: Raffaello. Feminine form: Raffaella. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Raffaele?
- A machine transcription gives /raffaɛle/ (IPA) for Italian.
- Is Raffaele a male or female name?
- Raffaele 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 are other forms of the name Raffaele?
- In the etymology graph, Rafael, Raphael and Raphaël are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Raffaele mean?
- Recorded meaning: Italian form of Raphael, name of one of the archangels.
- In which country does Raffaele have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 113 thousand people named Raffaele in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raffaele.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raffaeleThe 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, “Raffaele” — the 90th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.