Raffaella
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Raffaele or Raffaello
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/raffaɛlla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raffaella is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 667as Rafaela
- PTPortugal≈1 in 1.5Kas Rafaela
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 Raffaella 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
317,643 named Rafaela, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rafaela in BR Brazil, ES Spain, US United States and 1 more and Rafaella in CY Cyprus, AR Argentina.
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)
- Latin[in(measured from records)
- AncientGreek(measured from records)
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.
How Raffaella is read(measured from records)
Raffaella is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Italian64%
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Raffaella in English.
- German13%
weibl. Vom., italienische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Spanish5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Raffaella in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raffaella 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #158 | 317,643as Rafaela | 1 in 667 | 318K | Rafaela | 199 |
| IT Italy | #230 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 111 | Raffaella | 178 |
| ES Spain | — | 23,251as Rafaela | 1 in 2.2K | 25K | Rafaela | 80 |
| US United States | — | 10,532as Rafaela | 1 in 32K | 10K | Rafaela | 234 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 96 | Rafaella | 30 |
| PT Portugal | #154 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | Rafaela | 104 |
| CY Cyprus | #360 | 1,882as Ραφαελα | 1 in 673 | 1.9K | Rafaella | 38 |
317,643 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present). 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)
Raffaella 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.
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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
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 46 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 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 121 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 111 | #197 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 39 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Raffaella?
- A machine transcription gives /raffaɛlla/ (IPA) for Italian.
- What does the name Raffaella mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], masculine equivalent Raffaele or Raffaello Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Raffaella?
- In the etymology graph, Rafaela, Raphaela and Raffaela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- 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.
- In which country does Raffaella have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 318 thousand people named Rafaela, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Raffaella?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 317,643 people named Rafaela in 2022, about 1 in 667 residents.
- How common is Raffaella compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Raffaella is the 158th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Raffaella?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raffaellaThe 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, “Raffaella” — the 158th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.