Rafe

Where Rafe comes from

Medieval spelling variant of Ralph.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rafe
  • Germanic
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #809 among boys with 6 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1936
    Rafe de Crespigny born
    Australian sinologist and historian
  4. 1985
    Rafe Wolfe born
    Jamaican association football player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
  • A diminutive of the male given name Raphael.
Namesakes
  • Rafe de Crespigny · Australian sinologist and historian, born 1936
  • Rafe Wolfe · Jamaican association football player, born 1985
  • Rafe Mair · Canadian politician, 1931–2017
  • Rafe M. Brown · zoologist, born 1968
  • Rafe Judkins · American screenwriter, born 1983

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.