Rafael
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#218
up +4 places
2025 births
1,639
up +18 births
All-time births
89,379
2% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2006
- 1,702 births
- Best rank
- #195
- in 1985
- First recorded
- 1880
- #793 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1990
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 145 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 20061,702#217Peak
- 20251,639#218
- 20071,622#228
- 20241,621#222
- 20041,544#224
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #195 in 1985 · peak births 1,702 in 2006
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 99% boys■ 1% girls
89,379 boys · 568 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Rafael has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.