Rafferty?

[TeddyTonks]

Rafferty Charles to be exact?

2 syllable surname.

I'm not keen on Rafferty, it sounds like it belongs to a fussy little boy who wears sailor suits, but I do like the name Rafe.

Lovely name.

Love it. I know a young Rafferty, he's a fab little boy and his family aren't pretentious in the slightest. Also love Charles too. Go for it!

Nope. There are plenty of names without the hideous associations

My friend has given her baby the name Raf. This is not uncommon in the Netherlands.

Such a fantastic song. I could hear every instrument in my head there while reading the lyrics!!

Still a no from me though. Not keen on Rafferty as a first name.

I prefer Raphael tbh and I don't like that much. Sorry.

its cute but i would use it for a pet reminds me of a squirrel

sorry its refferty not rafferty squirel

sorry link didnt work

www.facebook.com/worthschool/posts/meet-rafferty-the-squirrel-rafferty-is-the-official-mascot-of-worth-week-2019-a-/1306043292909677/

I don't like the trend for random Irish surnames (Rafferty, Quinn, Ryan, Cassidy etc) being used as first names, so it's a No from me.

A No from me too

I know a couple under two and it’s shooting up in popularity at the moment. I don’t mind it as a name, though I don’t love it. All seem to go by Raffy.

It's a fairly common surname around here.

i would pronounce that raff errr eee, doesn't sound that nice tbh

Why would you do that? Do you always just leave letters out of names to make your own sounds entirely?

I love 'Rafferty'. It was on my shortlist.

I love it, Raffi is a lovely nn too.

I love it!

It’s called “an accent”

I love it.

I actually quite like it. And the more I think about Rafferty the more I like it

I like Rafferty. Also like Tennyson.

It's an Irish surname which like many Irish surnames is based on a personal name. In Irish it's Rabhartach, meaning something about high tides, maybe stormy or something energetic.
www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/rabhartach

I have a senior school age Rafferty, and I still love his name.
He likes it too and likes the fact it's more or less unique (hasn't been another in his school)
He goes by Raff now, that's how he introduces himself. He was Raffy when he was little and what we call him at home.
I do often have to spell it out to people whose first language isn't English, but perhaps that's because its an uncommon first name.
We are Northern and have never had the problem someone described above of missing letters/sounds.
Most people are very positive about his name, you do get a few cats bum faces sometimes but it doesn't bother us😂
People of my parents generation tend to say 'oh like Gerry Rafferty' and the odd person has mentioned Jude Law's son of the same name.

I don't often like surnamey names but I rather like the sound of this one. It sounds very cheerful and energetic somehow, plus you get the option of using Raff and Raffy, which are nice short forms, without the angelic associations of Raphael, which could be a bit hard to live up to!

And if anyone brings up Gerry Rafferty you could always say "oh well, I'll get it right next time" ;-)