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I don't know...nowadays I think if you want people to pronouce a name "Rafe" you probably ought to spell it that way. Otherwise, it's possible that "Ralph" will just start going by the standard English pronounciation of the name. For example, I knew a girl named "Anna" who pronounced her name "AH-nah". Well, that is, she pronounced her name that way until she was about 13, at which point she just gave up and stopped correcting people when they called her "AN-a".

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Back to Ralph pronounced Rafe, though, I also once saw the name "Raph," which might be another possibility...though in my head I pronounced the name like the first syllable of "Raphael," which isn't quite "Rafe". Still, I think people would generally find the "Rafe" pronunciation less of a stretch with "Raph" than with "Ralph".