# Rafferty (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rafferty/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 283 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 283 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3,284, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 12 | 6,906 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11,926 |
| 2013 | 12 | 6,926 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,433 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,985 |
| 2016 | 10 | 8,023 |
| 2017 | 10 | 8,000 |
| 2018 | 6 | 11,814 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,714 |
| 2020 | 15 | 5,906 |
| 2021 | 18 | 5,285 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,631 |
| 2023 | 17 | 5,614 |
| 2024 | 19 | 5,203 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6,360 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | 4,535 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 106 | 378 |
| 2012 | 131 | 338 |
| 2013 | 108 | 375 |
| 2014 | 114 | 365 |
| 2015 | 164 | 289 |
| 2016 | 181 | 280 |
| 2017 | 187 | 278 |
| 2018 | 183 | 273 |
| 2019 | 173 | 282 |
| 2020 | 184 | 257 |
| 2021 | 255 | 208 |
| 2022 | 285 | 179 |
| 2023 | 298 | 172 |
| 2024 | 222 | 221 |
| 2025 | 262 | 193 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.