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A given name in Finnish
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01 / Meaning & origin
Raffael is a masculine given name.
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United States, 2025: 9 boys (rank 8243).
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03 / By the numbers
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1984–2025 Spelling: Raffael
Recorded category boys
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Source: Statistik Austria · Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). National counts are computed by NameStoria as the sum of the published district rows plus the GEH row for the same name/sex/year (the file has no national total row); see notes for the overlap check.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 12 | 166 | observed |
| 1985 | 16 | 150 | observed |
| 1986 | 30 | 119 | observed |
| 1987 | 28 | 121 | observed |
| 1988 | 39 | 105 | observed |
| 1989 | 28 | 128 | observed |
| 1990 | 40 | 96 | observed |
| 1991 | 53 | 90 | observed |
| 1992 | 59 | 88 | observed |
| 1993 | 31 | 111 | observed |
| 1994 | 63 | 86 | observed |
| 1995 | 45 | 98 | observed |
| 1996 | 31 | 111 | observed |
| 1997 | 48 | 95 | observed |
| 1998 | 45 | 96 | observed |
| 1999 | 33 | 111 | observed |
| 2000 | 37 | 107 | observed |
| 2001 | 34 | 107 | observed |
| 2002 | 39 | 110 | observed |
| 2003 | 43 | 108 | observed |
| 2004 | 45 | 108 | observed |
| 2005 | 45 | 103 | observed |
| 2006 | 32 | 143 | observed |
| 2007 | 39 | 116 | observed |
| 2008 | 36 | 138 | observed |
| 2009 | 26 | 164 | observed |
| 2010 | 39 | 149 | observed |
| 2011 | 35 | 172 | observed |
| 2012 | 46 | 135 | observed |
| 2013 | 41 | 141 | observed |
| 2014 | 38 | 161 | observed |
| 2015 | 44 | 146 | observed |
| 2016 | 25 | 242 | observed |
| 2017 | 17 | 310 | observed |
| 2018 | 24 | 248 | observed |
| 2019 | 26 | 233 | observed |
| 2020 | 34 | 189 | observed |
| 2021 | 20 | 287 | observed |
| 2022 | 24 | 247 | observed |
| 2023 | 21 | 265 | observed |
| 2024 | 24 | 241 | observed |
| 2025 | 17 | 326 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Raffael” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
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06 / Behind the facts
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Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · CC-BY-3.0-DE · retrieved 2026-10-15
Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)
Office for National Statistics (ONS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
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