Raphaëlle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Raphaël
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁafaɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raphaëlle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- MQMartinique≈1 in 27K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Martinique, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Raphaelle in US United States.
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)
a female given name, masculine equivalent Raphaël
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raphaëlle 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 9.1K | Raphaëlle | 186 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Raphaëlle | 3 |
| ES Spain | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Raphaëlle | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 280 | 1 in 756K | 280 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 263 | 1 in 1.3M | 249 | Raphaelle | 120 |
| BE Belgium | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 30 | Raphaëlle | 18 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 5 | — | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yvonne Girardb. 1912FRnot in their usual namebadminton player (1912–1980)
- Raphaëlle Valbrune-Desplechinb. 1963FRFrench writer
- Raphaëlle Bacquéb. 1964FRFrench journalist
- Raphaëlle Pacheb. 1967FRFrench translator from Russian and literature teacher
- Raphaëlle Ducheminb. 1972FRFrench journalist
- Raphaëlle Brancheb. 1972FRFrench historian and teacher
- Raphaëlle Giordanob. 1974FRFrench writer
- Raphaëlle Bruneaub. 1976FRBelgian actress
- Raphaëlle Tervelb. 1979FRFrench handball player
- Raphaëlle Agoguéb. 1981FRFrench actress
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 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 5.1K | #176 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2022 | 42 | #243 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2023 | 35 | #284 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 30 | #319 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2021 | 30 | #350 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2019 | 30 | #329 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2020 | 27 | #363 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2016 | 23 | #433 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2017 | 22 | #452 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2011 | 18 | #569 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2018 | 17 | #553 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2014 | 16 | #613 |
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
- How do you pronounce Raphaëlle?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁafaɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Raphaëlle mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Raphaël Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Raphaëlle a male or female name?
- Raphaëlle is a female 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 Raphaëlle?
- In the etymology graph, Rafaela, Raffaella and Raphaela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Raphaëlle have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Raphaëlle in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raphaëlle.
- How common is the name Raphaëlle?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 280 people named Raphaëlle in 2022, about 1 in 756 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Raphaëlle?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rapha%C3%ABlleThe 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, “Raphaëlle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.