Rafael
231
Babies in 2024
+32%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 289
-10%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Rafael
Rafael appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #215 with 231 boys registered in England & Wales.
Rafael reached its peak in 2021, when 289 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #188 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 231 represents 80% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,229 boys have been officially registered with the name Rafael in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 2,674 boys were registered with the name, starting from 175 in 2014 and ending at 231 in 2024.