Raul

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Raul boys named Raul

By the numbers

Total US births

88,524

Estimated living today

73,000

Median age today

35

Peak year

2000

Best rank

223rd

Rank in 2025

634th

First recorded

1904

Girls / boys

484 / 88,040

How old the living Rauls are

born that year still alive today

Of the 88,524 babies given the name since 1904, about 73,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 8,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 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 Spanish

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

Notable Rauls

• Raúl Castro (born 1931)former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
• Raúl (born 1977)Spanish association football player
• Raúl Albiol (born 1985)Spanish association football player
• Raúl Alfonsín (1927–2009)Argentine politician
• Raul Meireles (born 1983)Portuguese association football player
• Raúl Jiménez (born 1991)Mexican association football player
• Raul Julia (1940–1994)Puerto Rican actor
• Raúl García (born 1986)Spanish footballer

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

Where Raul is most common

• TX31,205
• CA27,140
• NY4,621
• IL3,937
• AZ3,739
• FL2,699
• NM1,554
• NJ1,214
• CO922
• WA819

Relative to how many babies each state records, Raul is most concentrated in Texas (4.8×), Arizona (3.6×), New Mexico (3.4×), California (3.2×).

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

Names of 2000

The most popular boys’ names the year Raul peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Matthew
• Joshua
• Christopher
• Nicholas

All the names of 2000

Raul 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.

Raul: 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, Raul is most concentrated in Lucerne, where 0.07% of children were given it – 60 of them.

Raul: rank by region

In 2024, Raul was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2002, Raul was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2021, Raul was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain 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.

Raul by city

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

Raul 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 Raul lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 142,040 men called Raul 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 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Raudel

Raul against another name

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

• Raul vs Raudel

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