Rafael is a boy's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “God heals.” In 2024 it was given to 1,614 boys in the United States.
Rafael at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Biblical & Christian
Meaning
“God heals”
Also spelled
Raphael
About the name Rafael
Rafael belongs to the Biblical & Christian tradition. Its meaning — “God heals” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Raphael.
In the United States, Rafael first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #195 in 1985, and in 2024 1,614 babies received the name — 87,725 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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