Rael

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Rael is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Israel.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 76K
  • KEKenya≈1 in 2.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Kenya (inferred from the name graph)

≈26,000 people, est.

Sources
140 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Kenya, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Clipping of Israel.

Sources 2

Where in the world(measured from records)

Rael 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.

Where Rael is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya≈26,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Rael11
BR Brazil12,4601 in 17K12KRael80
PH Philippines≈1,400 est.≈1 in 76K—Rael26
ZA South Africa≈760 est.≈1 in 74K—Rael9
US United States6601 in 504K3.6KRael140
AL Albania821 in 37K79——
YT Mayotte≈18 est.≈1 in 11K5——

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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 976 (Mayotte). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Rael is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ra-El, Ra'El, Rae'L, Raèl, Rae’L

  • Swahili given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, Philippines, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Raèl, Ràel, Raël, Raél

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Raël, Raél

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Kenya, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Raèl

  • Indonesian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Kenya, United States

    Also written Raèl

  • Arabic given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kenya, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, United States

    Also written Ra-El

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Rael is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given name Israel

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pau, path, road, way, canal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Rael Vardja, b. 1947Rael Dornfest, b. 1950Rael Levitt, b. 1971Rael Toffolo, b. 1976Rael Artel, b. 1980Lia Clark, b. 1992
  • Rael Vardjab. 1947EEEstonian biologist (born 1947)
  • Rael Dornfestb. 1950USAmerican computer programmer
  • Rael Levittb. 1971ZASouth African auctioneer
  • Rael Toffolob. 1976BRBrazilian composer
  • Rael Artelb. 1980EEEstonian curator and museum director (born 1980)
  • Lia Clarkb. 1992BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian singer and drag queen
  • LionHeartGBnot in their usual namepoet, writer and performer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 50 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Rael
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.6K#9,093
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.5K#8,688
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.4K#9,206
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Rael mean, and where does it come from?
Clipping of Israel. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How common is the name Rael?
In Brazil, the national register counted 12,460 people named Rael in 2022, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
Is Rael a male or female name?
Rael 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 are other forms of the name Rael?
In the etymology graph, Rhael is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Rael have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Rael in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rael.

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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, “Rael”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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