Raife

What Raife means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2002, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Raife?

US: Rising: up from #10644 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #790 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 52 boys got the name (#2539 that year). First in the US records in 2002.

How common

• About 1 in 32,848 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,199 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 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.

Where in the US

Most popular in CO (0.19 per 1,000 boys), TX (0.03 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Raife is #2539 in the US and #452 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 Raife were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Rafe179 US · 255 E&W
• Raif16 US · 9 E&W
• Raef13 US · 11 E&W
• Raff0 US · 5 E&W
• Raf5 US
• Raefe0 US · 4 E&W
• Rayfe0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Raife

Boys

• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Thiago#50Portuguese, meaning “natal, relating to birth”^*
• Jaziel#198Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #934 in 2015, #198 in 2025
• Jasper#129Editor’s note Up from #214 in 2015 to #129 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 610 US boys in the 2025 records
• Theo#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #405 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Bodie#275Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #958 in 2015, #275 in 2025

For a sister

• Millie#73Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #469 in 2015, #73 in 2025
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Julieta#285Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #805 in 2015, #285 in 2025
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Rory#230“red-haired king”^*
• Esther#119“star”^*

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 Raife’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.