Rephael
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Hebrew name meaning 'God has healed,' Rephael was a capable and strong gatekeeper for the temple in the Old Testament
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɹɪphaəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rephael is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 409K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.1M
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 409K (inferred from the name graph)
≈100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Hebrew name meaning 'God has healed,' Rephael was a capable and strong gatekeeper for the temple in the Old Testament.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rephael 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Rephael | 11 |
| US United States | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6M | 6 | Rephael | 73 |
| BR Brazil | 22 | 1 in 9.6M | 27 | — | — |
| IL Israel | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 409K | — | Rephael | 14 |
| PH Philippines | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 6.5M | — | Rephael | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Rephael | 3 |
| CA Canada | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Rephael | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Rephael is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Deus cura; Amsterdam, Nissa
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
A Hebrew name meaning "God has healed".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 27 | #42,592 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 22 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #116,443 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rephael mean, and where does it come from?
- A Hebrew name meaning 'God has healed,' Rephael was a capable and strong gatekeeper for the temple in the Old Testament. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Rephael?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɪphaəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Rephael a male or female name?
- Rephael 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 Rephael have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 101 people named Rephael in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rephael.
- How common is the name Rephael?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 22 people named Rephael in 2022, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Rephael?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rephaelThe 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, “Rephael”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.