Raphael

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Raphael boys named Raphael

By the numbers

Total US births

24,581

Estimated living today

20,000

Median age today

20

Peak year

2025

Best rank

394th

Rank in 2025

394th

First recorded

1882

Girls / boys

323 / 24,258

How old the living Raphaels are

born that year still alive today

Of the 24,581 babies given the name since 1882, about 20,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 9,500 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

Latin Raphael. From Koine Greek Ῥᾱφᾱήλ, from Hebrew רָפָאֵל.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Raphaels

• Raphael (1483–1520)Italian painter and architect
• Raphaël Varane (born 1993)French footballer
• Raphaël Guerreiro (born 1993)French-Portuguese footballer
• Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779)German-Bohemian painter active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid
• Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959)Polish Jewish lawyer
• Raphael Warnock (born 1969)American pastor and politician
• Raphael Gualazzi (born 1981)Italian singer and pianist
• Raphaël Wicky (born 1977)Swiss footballer

People named Raphael with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Raphael is most common

• NY3,669
• CA2,674
• TX1,721
• FL1,291
• IL1,043
• NJ1,021
• PA794
• MI716
• MA592
• GA574

Relative to how many babies each state records, Raphael is most concentrated in New York (2.5×), Florida (2.0×), New Jersey (1.9×), the District of Columbia (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Raphael peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• Henry
• James

All the names of 2025

Raphael elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Raphael: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Raphael is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.37% of children were given it – 381 of them.

Raphael: rank by region

In 2025, Raphael was given 5 times or more in 5 regions of Belgium.

In 2023, Raphael was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2022, Raphael was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Raphael appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (Raphaël, 7th), Province of Namur (Raphaël, 8th), Province of Hainaut (Raphaël, 9th), Province of Luxembourg (Raphaël, 13th), Province of Liège (Raphaël, 16th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Raphaël, 23rd), Brussels-Capital Region (Raphaël, 40th), Province of West Flanders (Raphaël, 57th), Province of Limburg (Raphaël, 76th), Province of Antwerp (Raphaël, 163rd), Province of East Flanders (Raphaël, 170th), Province of West Flanders (Raphael, 178th) and Province of Antwerp (Raphael, 204th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Raphael by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Raphael among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Raphael lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 486 men called Raphael were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 23 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 29 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Rapheal

Raphael against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Raphael vs Rafael
• Raphael vs Rapheal

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