Rafferty

What Rafferty means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Rafferty yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1987, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Rafferty?

US: Steady: #6676 in 2015, #6143 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #289 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 19 boys got the name (#5067 that year). First in the US records in 1987.

How common

• About 1 in 122,005 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,038 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,806 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Rafferty is #6143 in the US and #193 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Rafferty were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

If you like Rafferty

Boys

• Cohen#225Editor’s note Up from #336 in 2015 to #225 in 2025 in the US
• Cash#287Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #287 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Ryder#132From a surname for “a rider, cavalryman, or knight”^*
• Kohen#295Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #295 vs #896 in 2025
• Gael#86“hunt”^*
• Jude#155possibly “praised”^*

For a sister

• Ruby#64Editor’s note Up from #83 in 2015 to #64 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 450 US girls in the 2025 records
• Norah#262Form of Eleanor, possibly meaning “other”^*
• Lola#275Editor’s note Down from #224 in 2015 to #275 in 2025 in the US
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Ailany#14Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #3,842 in 2015, #14 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Presley#225“priest + wood, clearing”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Rafferty’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.