Rafael Forename
151st
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 3,160,411 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Brazil
Highest density in:
Dominican Republic
Rafael Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 100% | 795,944 | 1:269 | 17 |
| Mexico | 100% | 480,914 | 1:258 | 36 |
| Spain | 100% | 261,788 | 1:178 | 26 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 224,460 | 1:135 | 11 |
| Colombia | 100% | 218,906 | 1:218 | 29 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 159,290 | 1:65 | 6 |
| United States | 100% | 154,151 | 1:2,352 | 434 |
| Cuba | - | 147,122 | 1:78 | 6 |
| Philippines | 99% | 100,472 | 1:1,055 | 208 |
| Mozambique | - | 72,478 | 1:376 | 68 |
| Argentina | 100% | 70,493 | 1:607 | 140 |
| Peru | 100% | 52,142 | 1:610 | 109 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 33,042 | 1:144 | 10 |
| Guatemala | 99% | 32,803 | 1:491 | 99 |
| Ecuador | - | 32,460 | 1:546 | 113 |
| Russia | 100% | 32,430 | 1:4,448 | 257 |
| El Salvador | - | 31,457 | 1:202 | 28 |
| Angola | 100% | 29,691 | 1:908 | 191 |
| Chile | 100% | 26,390 | 1:667 | 151 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 25,016 | 1:142 | 29 |
| Honduras | 100% | 18,986 | 1:464 | 73 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 16,725 | 1:634 | 151 |
| Paraguay | 99% | 14,287 | 1:507 | 104 |
| Portugal | - | 14,048 | 1:741 | 125 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 13,418 | 1:449 | 67 |
| Panama | 100% | 11,893 | 1:328 | 29 |
| Indonesia | 98% | 8,864 | 1:29,102 | 3,950 |
| Germany | 100% | 6,525 | 1:14,817 | 821 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 5,987 | 1:8,817 | 1,210 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 5,809 | 1:590 | 129 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 100% | 5,584 | 1:204 | 58 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 5,318 | 1:5,789 | 948 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 4,774 | 1:2,020 | 451 |
| Poland | 100% | 4,571 | 1:8,319 | 404 |
| Romania | 100% | 2,937 | 1:6,827 | 586 |
| Canada | 100% | 2,428 | 1:13,646 | 1,433 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 2,377 | 1:7,466 | 725 |
| Thailand | 100% | 2,323 | 1:30,162 | 3,748 |
| France | 100% | 2,229 | 1:29,821 | 1,154 |
| Belgium | 100% | 2,131 | 1:5,392 | 779 |
| England | 100% | 1,882 | 1:29,545 | 1,661 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 1,498 | 1:5,483 | 732 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 1,189 | 1:14,215 | 1,528 |
| Armenia | 99% | 1,037 | 1:2,815 | 446 |
| DR Congo | 96% | 972 | 1:75,954 | 4,335 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 946 | 1:187,700 | 8,338 |
| Ukraine | 99% | 853 | 1:53,341 | 605 |
| Uganda | 100% | 836 | 1:48,992 | 2,936 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 810 | 1:3,036 | 463 |
| Morocco | - | 737 | 1:46,606 | 2,011 |
| Ghana | - | 730 | 1:36,967 | 2,200 |
| India | 100% | 657 | 1:1,849,129 | 99,068 |
| Australia | - | 651 | 1:20,979 | 1,444 |
| South Africa | 99% | 623 | 1:87,532 | 7,447 |
| Sweden | 100% | 617 | 1:15,977 | 1,194 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 583 | 1:52,852 | 6,182 |
| Tajikistan | 100% | 553 | 1:15,145 | 1,242 |
| Belize | 100% | 545 | 1:650 | 86 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 98% | 523 | 1:11,421 | 1,629 |
| Kenya | 100% | 479 | 1:96,675 | 5,157 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 463 | 1:11,469 | 445 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 458 | 1:348,169 | 14,530 |
| Austria | 100% | 449 | 1:18,963 | 879 |
| Egypt | 100% | 412 | 1:223,061 | 7,852 |
| Togo | - | 412 | 1:17,571 | 2,429 |
| Croatia | 100% | 406 | 1:10,387 | 797 |
| Italy | 99% | 401 | 1:152,275 | 2,404 |
| Namibia | - | 366 | 1:6,569 | 901 |
| Czechia | 99% | 345 | 1:30,887 | 688 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 330 | 1:472 | 130 |
| Suriname | 100% | 313 | 1:1,766 | 411 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Albania | 100% | 266 | 1:11,453 | 1,732 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 256 | 1:118,945 | 7,978 |
| Andorra | - | 250 | 1:332 | 61 |
| Aruba | - | 238 | 1:436 | 42 |
| Finland | 100% | 233 | 1:23,533 | 1,206 |
| Hungary | 99% | 220 | 1:44,508 | 524 |
| Belarus | 99% | 183 | 1:51,816 | 650 |
| Cape Verde | - | 182 | 1:2,907 | 460 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 174 | 1:136,607 | 14,328 |
| Turkmenistan | 95% | 167 | 1:32,772 | 645 |
| Bulgaria | 99% | 164 | 1:42,624 | 2,298 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 162 | 1:44,148 | 4,061 |
| Ireland | 100% | 158 | 1:29,389 | 1,210 |
| Denmark | - | 158 | 1:35,756 | 1,573 |
| Norway | 100% | 158 | 1:32,483 | 1,599 |
| Qatar | 100% | 158 | 1:14,998 | 2,304 |
| New Zealand | - | 156 | 1:29,077 | 1,954 |
| China | - | 150 | 1:9,107,039 | 59,561 |
| Malawi | 100% | 148 | 1:115,624 | 6,115 |
| Lebanon | 96% | 137 | 1:41,077 | 2,151 |
| Algeria | - | 122 | 1:312,924 | 3,842 |
| Bahrain | - | 118 | 1:11,429 | 1,802 |
| Georgia | 98% | 107 | 1:34,939 | 1,975 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100% | 101 | 1:34,896 | 2,033 |
| Guam | - | 101 | 1:1,591 | 358 |
| Turkey | 100% | 100 | 1:778,017 | 8,792 |
| Greece | 100% | 91 | 1:120,160 | 3,019 |
| Singapore | 95% | 91 | 1:69,089 | 6,963 |
| Estonia | 100% | 88 | 1:14,948 | 1,431 |
| Japan | - | 85 | 1:1,505,718 | 17,681 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 83 | 1:1,322 | 271 |
| Kuwait | - | 76 | 1:49,806 | 4,237 |
| Papua New Guinea | 96% | 72 | 1:113,227 | 10,176 |
| Iraq | 100% | 68 | 1:514,969 | 5,682 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 62 | 1:3,097 | 578 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 58 | 1:265,928 | 14,718 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 56 | 1:10,072 | 826 |
| Scotland | 100% | 56 | 1:95,542 | 2,303 |
| Benin | 100% | 54 | 1:195,849 | 9,378 |
| Iran | 100% | 52 | 1:1,509,555 | 10,625 |
| Serbia | 100% | 52 | 1:137,418 | 3,114 |
| Guyana | 100% | 43 | 1:17,750 | 2,281 |
| Hong Kong | - | 42 | 1:184,589 | 3,204 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 37 | 1:23,543 | 1,381 |
| South Korea | 95% | 37 | 1:149,849 | 6,468 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 34 | 1:635,603 | 19,158 |
| Malta | - | 34 | 1:12,628 | 1,146 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 33 | 1:41,255 | 3,938 |
| Liberia | 100% | 32 | 1:137,877 | 5,438 |
| Moldova | 100% | 32 | 1:111,286 | 1,312 |
| Iceland | 100% | 29 | 1:12,621 | 1,042 |
| Botswana | - | 26 | 1:84,017 | 7,219 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 26 | 1:2,103 | 430 |
| Mongolia | - | 25 | 1:117,393 | 7,151 |
| Wales | 100% | 25 | 1:123,772 | 2,766 |
| Gibraltar | - | 23 | 1:1,484 | 297 |
| Oman | - | 21 | 1:195,651 | 3,243 |
| Haiti | - | 20 | 1:536,348 | 12,729 |
| Israel | 96% | 20 | 1:420,146 | 9,028 |
| Jamaica | - | 19 | 1:151,749 | 5,606 |
| Niger | 89% | 18 | 1:1,065,777 | 16,400 |
| Afghanistan | - | 16 | 1:2,038,970 | 18,017 |
| Ethiopia | - | 16 | 1:6,097,508 | 12,067 |
| Jordan | 100% | 16 | 1:551,673 | 4,062 |
| Abkhazia | 100% | 15 | 1:16,228 | 1,011 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 14 | 1:2,232 | 502 |
| Greenland | - | 14 | 1:4,026 | 570 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 12 | 1:8,283 | 1,404 |
| Palestine | 100% | 12 | 1:379,172 | 2,916 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 11 | 1:1,205 | 212 |
| Senegal | 86% | 11 | 1:1,325,578 | 10,886 |
| Tunisia | 100% | 11 | 1:61,537 | 2,905 |
| Kosovo | - | 10 | 1:186,144 | 7,603 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 10 | 1:19,435,768 | 100,312 |
| American Samoa | - | 9 | 1:6,205 | 1,322 |
| East Timor | - | 9 | 1:135,375 | 266 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 9 | 1:226,666 | 15,149 |
| Libya | - | 9 | 1:691,257 | 1,282 |
| Madagascar | - | 9 | 1:2,625,490 | 3,077 |
| Myanmar | - | 9 | 1:5,772,030 | 1,432 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 9 | 1:6,096 | 1,002 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 9 | 1:787,629 | 675 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 8 | 1:2,297,434 | 45,707 |
| Monaco | 100% | 8 | 1:4,808 | 802 |
| Vietnam | - | 8 | 1:11,577,889 | 4,258 |
| Zambia | - | 8 | 1:1,981,849 | 20,512 |
| Grenada | 100% | 7 | 1:15,446 | 1,649 |
| Syria | - | 7 | 1:2,758,011 | 4,869 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 7 | 1:67,948 | 944 |
| Macau | - | 6 | 1:101,368 | 818 |
| Cayman Islands | - | 5 | 1:12,260 | 1,512 |
| Lithuania | 100% | 5 | 1:590,376 | 2,548 |
| Bahamas | - | 4 | 1:99,842 | 1,712 |
| Bermuda | - | 4 | 1:16,206 | 1,525 |
| Cambodia | - | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Guernsey | - | 4 | 1:15,833 | 609 |
| Guinea-Bissau | - | 4 | 1:432,054 | 199 |
| Laos | - | 4 | 1:1,646,714 | 900 |
| Mali | - | 4 | 1:4,244,439 | 5,329 |
| Micronesia | - | 4 | 1:26,625 | 714 |
| Palau | - | 4 | 1:5,428 | 88 |
| Solomon Islands | - | 4 | 1:145,239 | 6,287 |
| Sudan | 100% | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Vanuatu | - | 4 | 1:65,448 | 976 |
| Yemen | - | 4 | 1:6,574,188 | 5,851 |
| Congo | - | 3 | 1:1,669,735 | 30,542 |
| Dominica | - | 2 | 1:37,736 | 863 |
| Ivory Coast | - | 2 | 1:11,537,966 | 95,271 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 2 | 1:317,288 | 3,822 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 2 | 1:88,908 | 5,280 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 1 | 1:1,843,146 | 3,737 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Burundi | - | 1 | 1:9,906,559 | 2,558 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Eritrea | - | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Fiji | - | 1 | 1:892,378 | 3,968 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gabon | - | 1 | 1:1,883,336 | 4,538 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Guinea | 100% | 1 | 1:11,858,647 | 7,978 |
| Jersey | - | 1 | 1:99,980 | 2,122 |
| Latvia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| North Macedonia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:51,230 | 5,014 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| New Caledonia | - | 1 | 1:270,164 | 3,221 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 1 | 1:111,580 | 7,062 |
| San Marino | - | 1 | 1:32,920 | 787 |
| South Ossetia | 100% | 1 | 1:53,551 | 905 |
| Swaziland | - | 1 | 1:1,300,177 | 3,374 |
| Tonga | - | 1 | 1:107,436 | 779 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
The alternate forms: Rafaél (51), Ráfael (24), Rafaèl (6), Rafáel (1) & Ráfáèl (1) are calculated separately.
Rafael (188,937) may also be a surname.
Rafael Forename Popularity
Rafael Demographics
Average Male Rafael Height
173.27 cm
Average male height (US):
175.3 cm
Sample size: 16,939 (2014)
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Phonetically Similar Names
Rafael Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Rafael in the Russian language | ||
| Рафаэль | rafael | - |
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Footnotes
- First names are taken from the first part of an person's personal name. That is, not their inherited name(s), i.e. their surname(s). The first name includes particles, but not middle names
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Rafael