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How popular is the name Rafferty?
Births per year, rank history and how many Rafferties are alive today.
Rafferty (male) sits just outside the top 100 boys' names in England and Wales, ranked 193rd in 2025 with 262 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2023, when 298 babies were given the name, the 172nd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 221 in 2024 before climbing back to the 193rd place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Rafferty you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Rafferties born in England and Wales are between 4 and 12, and there are at least 3,200 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's roughly a 1.1% chance that at least one of them will be called Rafferty.
How many babies are named Rafferty each year?
Where does Rafferty rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Rafferty most popular?
Rafferty peaked in 2023, when 298 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Rafferty?
At least 3,200 people named Rafferty born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Rafferty?
Most living Rafferties are between 4 and 12; the most common age is about 4.
Is Rafferty becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.