Meaning not yet researched.
Raphael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 807 in 2025. Its best rank was #394 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Raphael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#394 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Raphael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 807 boys in 2025. Peak: #394 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 807 (2025).
In 2025, 807 US boys were named Raphael, making it the 394th most common boys’ name of the year, up 26 places from #420 in 2024. That is 56 more than the 751 boys named Raphael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #394, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 807. For comparison, it was #537 in 2015 and #848 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raphael in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 24,581 US babies have been given the name, 1.3% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,722 babies named Raphael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,185 US boys were named Raphael; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 807. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,117 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raphael ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #136 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rafael (89,947 babies since 1880) and Rapheal (1,542 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raphaelle and Raphiel are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ralph.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Hebrew. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raphaelle (66), Raphiel (53).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 7 | #136 | — |
| New York | 90 | #219 | #339 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #226 | — |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #285 | #438 |
| New Jersey | 31 | #289 | #245 |
| Maryland | 19 | #297 | #358 |
| California | 116 | #315 | #474 |
| Washington | 24 | #318 | #686 |
| Florida | 62 | #320 | #402 |
| Texas | 108 | #350 | #488 |
| Kansas | 10 | #380 | — |
| Virginia | 20 | #405 | #535 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #413 | — |
| Illinois | 26 | #429 | #495 |
| Arizona | 17 | #442 | #656 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #451 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | #452 | #487 |
| Michigan | 19 | #454 | #527 |
| Oregon | 8 | #465 | #622 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #480 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #481 | #295 |
| Iowa | 7 | #486 | #553 |
| Colorado | 11 | #528 | #673 |
| Indiana | 13 | #538 | — |
| Minnesota | 10 | #543 | #532 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #562 | #749 |
| Nevada | 5 | #577 | #493 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #592 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #606 | — |
| Ohio | 16 | #618 | #973 |
| Missouri | 9 | #637 | #647 |
| Georgia | 16 | #645 | #611 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #691 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #746 | #786 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #760 | #894 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #764 | #745 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 807 | #394 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,141 | 751 | #420 |
| 2023 | — | — | 686 | #453 |
| 2022 | — | — | 641 | #483 |
| 2021 | — | — | 548 | #538 |
| 2020 | — | — | 559 | #513 |
| 2019 | — | — | 545 | #523 |
| 2018 | — | — | 536 | #529 |
| 2017 | — | — | 561 | #516 |
| 2016 | — | — | 551 | #533 |
| 2015 | — | — | 533 | #537 |
| 2014 | — | — | 461 | #596 |
| 2013 | — | — | 423 | #600 |
| 2012 | — | — | 387 | #629 |
| 2011 | — | — | 356 | #668 |
| 2010 | — | — | 369 | #653 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,550 | 400 | #625 |
| 2008 | — | — | 397 | #622 |
| 2007 | — | — | 333 | #702 |
| 2006 | — | — | 331 | #682 |
| 2005 | — | — | 316 | #668 |
| 2004 | — | — | 304 | #671 |
| 2003 | — | — | 253 | #725 |
| 2002 | — | — | 269 | #682 |
| 2001 | — | — | 266 | #682 |
| 2000 | — | — | 304 | #619 |
| 1999 | — | — | 268 | #645 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,723 | 256 | #668 |
| 1997 | — | — | 260 | #641 |
| 1996 | — | — | 254 | #657 |
| 1995 | — | — | 251 | #659 |
| 1994 | — | — | 261 | #643 |
| 1993 | — | — | 270 | #625 |
| 1992 | — | — | 311 | #579 |
| 1991 | — | — | 371 | #516 |
| 1990 | — | — | 450 | #465 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,553 | 303 | #554 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,010 | 303 | #525 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,723 | 253 | #568 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,577 | 268 | #546 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,984 | 256 | #549 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,026 | 208 | #587 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,900 | 179 | #642 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,129 | 191 | #628 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,673 | 167 | #669 |
| 1980 | — | — | 158 | #692 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,658 | 157 | #681 |
| 1978 | — | — | 171 | #643 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,807 | 182 | #621 |
| 1976 | — | — | 182 | #607 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,747 | 181 | #604 |
| 1974 | — | — | 162 | #634 |
| 1973 | — | — | 192 | #573 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,012 | 180 | #595 |
| 1971 | — | — | 187 | #613 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,313 | 168 | #626 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,350 | 153 | #643 |
| 1968 | — | — | 130 | #664 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,596 | 105 | #725 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,349 | 110 | #710 |
| 1965 | — | — | 96 | #753 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,546 | 98 | #769 |
| 1963 | — | — | 99 | #769 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,714 | 107 | #742 |
| 1961 | — | — | 116 | #715 |
| 1960 | — | — | 93 | #796 |
| 1959 | — | — | 97 | #781 |
| 1958 | — | — | 99 | #743 |
| 1957 | — | — | 97 | #764 |
| 1956 | — | — | 94 | #760 |
| 1955 | — | — | 93 | #759 |
| 1954 | — | — | 110 | #690 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,522 | 81 | #797 |
| 1952 | — | — | 86 | #761 |
| 1951 | — | — | 71 | #835 |
| 1950 | — | — | 65 | #848 |
| 1949 | — | — | 69 | #822 |
| 1948 | — | — | 83 | #743 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,676 | 69 | #837 |
| 1946 | — | — | 64 | #824 |
| 1945 | — | — | 61 | #794 |
| 1944 | — | — | 48 | #931 |
| 1943 | — | — | 58 | #881 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,525 | 68 | #784 |
| 1941 | — | — | 63 | #795 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,247 | 72 | #723 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,153 | 69 | #723 |
| 1938 | — | — | 50 | #893 |
| 1937 | — | — | 63 | #777 |
| 1936 | — | — | 69 | #728 |
| 1935 | — | — | 53 | #869 |
| 1934 | — | — | 59 | #820 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,685 | 71 | #725 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,318 | 72 | #738 |
| 1931 | — | — | 85 | #648 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,451 | 97 | #625 |
| 1929 | — | — | 96 | #626 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,109 | 99 | #615 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,699 | 90 | #682 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,229 | 81 | #711 |
| 1925 | — | — | 99 | #640 |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,112 | 108 | #613 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,863 | 94 | #661 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,942 | 130 | #554 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,367 | 101 | #640 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,861 | 103 | #626 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,741 | 98 | #614 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,791 | 100 | #615 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,641 | 85 | #649 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,993 | 117 | #531 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,372 | 100 | #569 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,593 | 95 | #504 |
| 1913 | — | — | 68 | #522 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,899 | 55 | #543 |
| 1911 | — | — | 30 | #558 |
| 1910 | — | — | 19 | #700 |
| 1909 | — | — | 12 | #886 |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,057 | 24 | #520 |
| 1907 | — | — | 19 | #582 |
| 1906 | — | — | 13 | #698 |
| 1905 | — | — | 13 | #693 |
| 1904 | — | — | 10 | #799 |
| 1903 | — | — | 9 | #833 |
| 1902 | — | — | 15 | #582 |
| 1901 | — | — | 13 | #583 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #1,031 |
| 1899 | — | — | 10 | #702 |
| 1898 | — | — | 13 | #631 |
| 1897 | — | — | 13 | #614 |
| 1896 | — | — | 9 | #815 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #785 |
| 1894 | — | — | 9 | #775 |
| 1893 | — | — | 11 | #643 |
| 1892 | — | — | 13 | #591 |
| 1891 | — | — | 9 | #690 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #618 |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #1,037 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #829 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,065 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).