Raphael
320
Babies in 2024
+32%
10-year change
2023
Peak · 339
-6%
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 Raphael
Raphael appears in the official UK boys' name list for 2024, ranked #158 with 320 boys registered in England & Wales.
Raphael reached its peak in 2023, when 339 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #156 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,409 boys have been officially registered with the name Raphael in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,163 boys were registered with the name, starting from 243 in 2014 and ending at 320 in 2024.