Raphael is a boy's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “God has healed.” In 2024 it was given to 744 boys in the United States.
Raphael at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Biblical & Christian
Meaning
“God has healed”
Pronunciation
/ˈɹæf.eɪˌɛl/
About the name Raphael
Raphael belongs to the Biblical & Christian tradition. Its meaning — “God has healed” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Raphael first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #420 in 2024, and in 2024 744 babies received the name — 23,439 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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