Raffin: Last Name and Heraldic Notes

Raffin is a surname that official counts record clearly. In Wikidata, Raffin is listed as a French surname. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Raffin, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

272 Americans were listed as Raffin in the 2010 census. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames. 6,642 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Raffin name at birth. There were 323 such births in the 1890s and 542 in the 1990s.

There is no single Raffin family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Raffin line, if any, bore arms. Research your Raffin family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.