Rapheal
Rapheal was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,542 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,280 Americans named Rapheal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 27 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rapheal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rapheal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,666, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
81 babies in 1990, the peak
Rapheal peaked in 1990, when 81 boys were given it, #1,217 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,666 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,550 | 4.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,929 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,513 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,621 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,466 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,040 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 20 | #4,849 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #6,960 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,166 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 28 | #3,778 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,522 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,483 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,489 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,991 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,381 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,805 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,525 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,874 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,438 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,929 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 15 | #5,074 | 7.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,984 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 18 | #4,114 | 9.4 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,568 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 17 | #4,011 | 9.0 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,552 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,808 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 24 | #3,005 | 12.4 |
| 1993 | 23 | #3,004 | 11.7 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,286 | 16.5 |
| 1991 | 55 | #1,563 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,217 | 39.4 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,283 | 36.0 |
| 1988 | 57 | #1,382 | 29.8 |
| 1987 | 47 | #1,523 | 25.2 |
| 1986 | 51 | #1,398 | 27.7 |
| 1985 | 48 | #1,426 | 26.0 |
| 1984 | 31 | #1,829 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 21 | #2,390 | 11.7 |
| 1982 | 30 | #1,878 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,254 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 23 | #2,269 | 12.9 |
| 1979 | 21 | #2,352 | 12.2 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,767 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,758 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,790 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,867 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | #2,340 | 11.4 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,827 | 8.3 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,511 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 19 | #2,191 | 10.7 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,025 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,819 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,032 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,415 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,587 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,477 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,289 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,575 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,497 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,312 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,824 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,631 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,981 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,884 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,755 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,435 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,902 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,673 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,313 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,293 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,603 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,618 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,957 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 8 | #3,046 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,453 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,057 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,895 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,634 | 7.8 |
| 1937 | 8 | #2,854 | 7.5 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,091 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,192 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,939 | 8.1 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,689 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,209 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,566 | 10.0 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,477 | 6.5 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,363 | 11.7 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,865 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,691 | 4.5 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,098 | 5.4 |
| 1923 | 11 | #2,736 | 10.0 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,790 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,232 | 5.4 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,176 | 5.6 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,450 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,779 | 10.6 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,185 | 9.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rapheal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rapheal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rapheal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rapheal, and how old are they?
1,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 1,542 Americans ever recorded as Rapheal. The median Rapheal alive today is 37 years old; half are between 27 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,144 people named Rapheal (21 women and girls, 1,123 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,300 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 108 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 197 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 595 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 241 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 124 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 27,269 babies since 1880, Rapheal is the second most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 807 babies recorded by SSA was a Rapheal (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rapheal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rapheal and names like it
- Compare Rapheal and RaphaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRapheal peaked in 1990.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rapheal since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Rapheal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rapheal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.