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Around the world, Raffael (Raffael , ラファエル , Раффаел ) is quite a rare male forename. The first name Raffael is habitual in Austria, where it is quite a rare male name, Switzerland, and Trinidad and Tobago. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in Brazil, Indonesia, and Germany. Very seldom, Raffael is the last name as well as the forename.
Raffael is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Raphael , the fictional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character; Rafael Montero , character in The Mask of Zorro; Raphaël de Valentin , the Honoré de Balzac character, La Comédie humaine; Raphael , the fictional character in the television series Supernatural and Raphael , the fictional Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles character, created for the film script ''The Blue Door'', among other works.