Rafaél
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/rafael/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Rafaél is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hebrew רָפָאֵל (Rāfāʾēl).
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 91(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 150
- ESSpain1 in 230
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rafaél itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #200 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 519 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 91 (inferred from the name graph)
873,321 people, 2022
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Rafael in BR Brazil, VE Venezuela, MX Mexico and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Hebrew רָפָאֵל (Rāfāʾēl).
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rafaél counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #27 | 873,321 | 1 in 242 | 873K | Rafael | 295 |
| MX Mexico | #57 | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 252 | 3K | Rafael | 271 |
| ES Spain | #30 | 217,304 | 1 in 230 | 225K | Rafael | 273 |
| VE Venezuela | #9 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 150 | — | Rafael | 152 |
| US United States | #492 | 148,942 | 1 in 2.2K | 149K | Rafael | 519 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #4 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 91 | 47K | Rafael | 113 |
| SV El Salvador | #50 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 234 | — | Rafael | 104 |
873,321 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Rafaél a male or female name?
- Rafaél is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Rafaél mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hebrew רָפָאֵל (Rāfāʾēl). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 4 other sources.
- How do you pronounce Rafaél?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /rafael/; in Portuguese /ɾɐfɐɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Rafaél have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 873 thousand people named Rafaél, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rafael.
- How common is the name Rafaél?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 873,321 people named Rafaél in 2022, about 1 in 242 residents.
- How common is Rafaél compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Rafaél is the 27th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rafaél?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rafa%C3%A9lThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rafaél” — the 27th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.