Meaning not yet researched.
Raul: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 440 in 2025. Its best rank was #190 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #190 in 1981; #634 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raul in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#634 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #190.
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Raul: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 440 boys in 2025. Peak: #190 in 1981 · most boys in one year: 1,519 (2000).
In 2025, 440 US boys were named Raul, making it the 634th most common boys’ name of the year, down 22 places from #612 in 2024. That is 26 fewer than the 466 boys named Raul in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #190, reached in 1981. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,519, in 2000. For comparison, it was #443 in 2015 and #255 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raul in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 8 babies. In all, 88,524 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 14,680 babies named Raul.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,193 US boys were named Raul; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 652. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,882 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raul ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #277 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ralph (415,858 babies since 1880) and Rahul (3,332 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ruel, Rahil and Rael are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ruel (1,926), Rahil (738), Rael (660), Rahel (511), Rayel (80), Rahyl (30), Ral (6), Raahul (5).
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.
No nicknames listed for Raul in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 142 | #277 | #207 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #301 | #390 |
| California | 109 | #333 | #270 |
| Arizona | 22 | #351 | #217 |
| Nevada | 9 | #354 | #267 |
| Oregon | 6 | #584 | #484 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #611 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #738 | #454 |
| Illinois | 12 | #741 | #448 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #769 | — |
| New York | 17 | #835 | #936 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #877 | — |
| Georgia | 10 | #903 | #653 |
| Florida | 15 | #949 | #621 |
| Washington | 6 | #974 | #535 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,114 | #613 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 440 | #634 |
| 2024 | — | — | 466 | #612 |
| 2023 | — | — | 477 | #595 |
| 2022 | — | — | 539 | #554 |
| 2021 | — | — | 455 | #612 |
| 2020 | — | — | 505 | #557 |
| 2019 | — | — | 552 | #519 |
| 2018 | — | — | 551 | #514 |
| 2017 | — | — | 556 | #520 |
| 2016 | — | — | 652 | #468 |
| 2015 | — | — | 693 | #443 |
| 2014 | — | — | 727 | #422 |
| 2013 | — | — | 722 | #409 |
| 2012 | — | — | 722 | #404 |
| 2011 | — | — | 835 | #360 |
| 2010 | — | — | 926 | #340 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,015 | #315 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,798 | 1,180 | #288 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,387 | #255 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,355 | #255 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,752 | 1,332 | #248 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,175 | 1,381 | #242 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,320 | 1,401 | #238 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,407 | #240 |
| 2001 | — | — | 1,439 | #235 |
| 2000 | — | — | 1,519 | #223 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,280 | 1,469 | #228 |
| 1998 | — | — | 1,373 | #232 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,338 | 1,406 | #219 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,068 | 1,493 | #207 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,364 | 1,512 | #201 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,161 | 1,452 | #199 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,531 | 1,497 | #205 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,402 | 1,488 | #207 |
| 1991 | — | — | 1,458 | #214 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,379 | 1,461 | #209 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,888 | 1,359 | #209 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,574 | 1,235 | #212 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,228 | 1,184 | #211 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,131 | 1,164 | #208 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,343 | 1,108 | #218 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,459 | 1,106 | #208 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,074 | 1,141 | #208 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,731 | 1,223 | #202 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,799 | 1,318 | #190 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,813 | 1,288 | #190 |
| 1979 | — | — | 1,119 | #212 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,454 | 1,036 | #209 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,216 | 1,016 | #217 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,099 | 1,111 | #199 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,414 | 1,038 | #208 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,943 | 1,065 | #209 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,227 | 959 | #225 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,080 | 1,050 | #212 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,882 | 1,116 | #211 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,696 | 1,038 | #227 |
| 1969 | — | — | 843 | #249 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,050 | 885 | #241 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,439 | 852 | #240 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,382 | 844 | #247 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,436 | 793 | #263 |
| 1964 | — | — | 836 | #266 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,184 | 852 | #262 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,715 | 816 | #268 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,302 | 881 | #267 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,090 | 905 | #264 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,445 | 846 | #272 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,801 | 865 | #265 |
| 1957 | — | — | 846 | #259 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,742 | 812 | #252 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,530 | 798 | #249 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,429 | 782 | #248 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,512 | 738 | #255 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,222 | 713 | #256 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,042 | 704 | #251 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,926 | 646 | #255 |
| 1949 | — | — | 646 | #254 |
| 1948 | — | — | 615 | #267 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,940 | 572 | #288 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,542 | 482 | #295 |
| 1945 | — | — | 487 | #268 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,100 | 393 | #301 |
| 1943 | — | — | 371 | #318 |
| 1942 | — | — | 345 | #325 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,934 | 291 | #337 |
| 1940 | — | — | 304 | #325 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,801 | 322 | #311 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,851 | 303 | #315 |
| 1937 | — | — | 264 | #336 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,733 | 282 | #321 |
| 1935 | — | — | 324 | #303 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,107 | 313 | #307 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,352 | 320 | #296 |
| 1932 | — | — | 338 | #303 |
| 1931 | — | — | 364 | #290 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,110 | 408 | #281 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,981 | 422 | #271 |
| 1928 | — | — | 375 | #293 |
| 1927 | — | — | 361 | #304 |
| 1926 | — | — | 306 | #328 |
| 1925 | — | — | 282 | #349 |
| 1924 | — | — | 307 | #331 |
| 1923 | — | — | 217 | #408 |
| 1922 | — | — | 203 | #422 |
| 1921 | — | — | 195 | #439 |
| 1920 | — | — | 179 | #455 |
| 1919 | — | — | 109 | #575 |
| 1918 | — | — | 101 | #614 |
| 1917 | — | — | 93 | #616 |
| 1916 | — | — | 82 | #647 |
| 1915 | — | — | 88 | #615 |
| 1914 | — | — | 51 | #740 |
| 1913 | — | — | 53 | #609 |
| 1912 | — | — | 29 | #831 |
| 1911 | — | — | 18 | #787 |
| 1910 | — | — | 16 | #776 |
| 1909 | — | — | 10 | #1,008 |
| 1908 | — | — | 8 | #1,096 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #909 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #945 |
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).