Ravell
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/rabeʎ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Ravell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London; Lincs; also Cumb. see Ralston .
- ESSpain1 in 575K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 2.2M
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 575K (inferred from the name graph)
121 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): London; Lincs; also Cumb. see Ralston . • Current frequencies: GB 31, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 84 • Main GB location 1881: London; Lincs; also Cumb English: see Raffle . Rault Raven • Current frequencies: GB 39, Ireland 0 • GB frequency 1881: 50 • Main GB location 1881: Jersey French, English: relationship name, apparently a development from Raulf, Ralf, an Old French form of the Continental Germanic personal name Radulf. Compare Ralph . Variants: Revan , Ravens , Ravan
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where the surname Ravell is found
(measured from records)Ravell 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 121 | 1 in 2.7M | 133 | Ravell | 90 |
| ES Spain | 87 | 1 in 575K | 87 | Ravell | 15 |
| AR Argentina | 21 | 1 in 2.2M | 21 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 8.7M | 5 | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Ravell | 47 |
| SG Singapore | — | — | — | Ravell | 1 |
121 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)- Jaume Partagàs i Ravellb. 1816ESSpanish businessperson (1816-1864)
- Alberto Ravellb. 1901VEVenezuelan journalist (1901–1960)
- Wim Ravellb. 1961BEBelgian singer (1961-2021)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ravell?
- In Spanish /rabeʎ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Ravell mean?
- Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): London; Lincs; also Cumb. see Ralston .
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ravell?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 121 people named Ravell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ravell. After it come Spain, Argentina and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ravell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ravell is densest in Spain — about 1 in 575 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ravell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 121 people named Ravell in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ravellThe 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, “Ravell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.