Rafayel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹəfeiəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rafayel is a 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.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 101as Rafael(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 149as Rafael
- ESSpain1 in 230as Rafael
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 Rafayel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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)
- Sources
- 519 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101 (inferred from the name graph)
873,321 named Rafael, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est., as Rafael
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rafael in BR Brazil, VE Venezuela, US United States 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rafayel 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 | 873,321as Rafael | 1 in 242 | 873K | Rafael | 295 |
| ES Spain | #30 | 217,304as Rafael | 1 in 230 | 225K | Rafael | 273 |
| VE Venezuela | #9 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 149 | — | Rafael | 152 |
| US United States | #492 | 148,942as Rafael | 1 in 2.2K | 149K | Rafael | 519 |
| CO Colombia | #79 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 458 | — | Rafael | 198 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #4 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 101 | 47K | Rafael | 113 |
| SV El Salvador | #50 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 255 | — | 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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rafayel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Walloon, Raphael
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)
- Raphael Patkanianb. 1830RUnot in their usual nameArmenian poet (1830-1892)
- Traian Demetrescub. 1866ROnot in their usual nameRomanian writer (1866-1896)
- Rafael Israelyanb. 1908AMArmenian architect (1908–1973)
- Rafayel Ishkhanianb. 1922AMArmenian historian (1922-1995)
- Rafael Davidianb. 1923RUArmenian music teacher and violinist (1923-1997)
- Rafael Mangasaryanb. 1927AMArmenian conductor
- Rafael Papayanb. 1942AMArmenian politician (1942-2010)
- Rafael Kotanjyanb. 1942AMArmenian actor (1942–2022)
- Rafayel Aghajanyanb. 1950MDSoviet screenwriter
- Rafael Minasbekyanb. 1968RUArmenian screenwriter
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).
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)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 26 | #22,042 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 26 | #46,971 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Rafayel?
- In the etymology graph, Raphael is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rafayel?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹəfeiəɫ/ (IPA) for Armenian.
- Is Rafayel a male or female name?
- Rafayel 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.
- In which country does Rafayel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 873 thousand people named Rafael, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Rafayel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 873,321 people named Rafael in 2022, about 1 in 242 residents.
- How common is Rafayel compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Rafayel is the 27th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rafayel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rafayelThe 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, “Rafayel” — the 27th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.