Raffy

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Raffy: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Raffy: Recorded since 2012, its highest recorded position is #1,053, reached in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
13times a registrar ranked it
13years from first to last
#1053highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2020–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2020	#5493
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 11 of the 13 years from 2012 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2012–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2012
First recorded at #4805 among boys in England and Wales in 2012 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2012–2024
Highest recorded position: #1053 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 2012–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1053 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Raffy appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 11 years beginning in 2012, and has registered 142 births with the name.

Raffy across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Raffy's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#4805 (2012)	#1053 (2024)	#1053 (2024)	11 of 13	142 (2012–2024)	28 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5493 (2020)	#4709 (2023)	#4709 (2023)	2 of 4	7 (2020–2023)	4 (2023)

Raffy appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Names at their highest recorded position

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2012 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1053 in England and Wales in 2024.

Raffy's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1053	28	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1108	26	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1104	25	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1078	26	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 2012 and 2024, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,053, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 28 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
10 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
2separate stretches the record falls into2 separate stretches →
2 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#1,053position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
28births registered in its largest year, 202425 to 49 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Rafferty · #172, 25y
Raffi · #727, 21y
Rafi · #535, 29y
Rafia · #1646, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kiswa · #1056, 10y
Carter-James · #1042, 13y
Alyza · #1069, 16y
River-Rose · #1069, 10y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Kiswa · #1056, 10y
Carter-James · #1042, 13y
River-Rose · #1069, 10y
Aayansh · #1076, 11y

Raffy and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Raffy without appearing here.

Raffy moved ahead of

Einar Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3937 and #3411 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1078 and #4789.
Nils Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3937 and #3411 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1078 and #3990.
Anders Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3937 and #3937 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #2076 and #4608.
Aria Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3937 and #3411 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #1078 and #3451.

Moved the opposite way to Raffy

Aaron Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raffy went from #4805 to #1053 while Aaron went from #69 to #154.
Alan Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raffy went from #4805 to #1053 while Alan went from #178 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raffy went from #4805 to #1053 while Alex went from #65 to #171.
Alfie Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raffy went from #4805 to #1053 while Alfie went from #7 to #16.

Moved the same way as Raffy

Aksel Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raffy went from #4805 to #1053 and Aksel from #3416 to #1132.
Albie Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raffy went from #4805 to #1053 and Albie from #188 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raffy went from #4805 to #1053 and Alfred from #158 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2012 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Raffy went from #4805 to #1053 and Archie from #23 to #10.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2012 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1053 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Raffy

Raffy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Raffy across 2 official records

Raffy appears in

Popularity data

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Also first recorded in the 2010s

Raffy and the names beside it

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Raffy at a glance

Raffy across 2 official records

Raffy appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Raffy and the names beside it

Raffy moved ahead of

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