'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RAFTERY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

The most likely matches are shown first.

RAFTER
RAFFERTY
CAFFERY
RAFTERY
RATER
RASBERY
RAFFETY
AUTERY
RAFEY
HARTERY
HAFTER
CRAFTER
RAXTER

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

The following words are slight variants of RAFTERY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.

RAFTREY RFATERY RATFERY ARFTERY RAFTER RAFTERA RAFTERYA RAFTERYE RAFTERYI RAFTERYO