Raphael Boy Name

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The table below indicates the number of times the name Raphael has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Raphael**
Use of the Name Raphael for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
13,689	9,925	6,588	2,666	1,382	545	294

The table below indicates the number of times the name Raphael has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Raphael first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1886, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Raphael**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1886	830	7
1887
1888
1889	618	11
1890
1891	690	9
1892	591	13
1893	643	11
1894	777	9
1895	785	9
1896	816	9
1897	614	13
1898	631	13
1899	703	10
1900
1901	585	13
1902	582	15
1903	834	9
1904	799	10
1905	693	13
1906	699	13
1907	582	19
1908	520	24
1909	832	13
1910	700	19
1911	558	30
1912	542	55
1913	520	68
1914	504	95
1915	572	99
1916	527	118
1917	651	85
1918	615	101
1919	614	98
1920	625	103
1921	646	100
1922	553	131
1923	663	94
1924	615	108
1925	642	98
1926	714	80
1927	674	91
1928	610	101
1929	631	95
1930	635	94
1931	645	85
1932	743	71
1933	722	71
1934	806	60
1935	858	54
1936	733	68
1937	777	63
1938	891	50
1939	725	69
1940	725	71
1941	774	65
1942	790	67
1943	876	58
1944	918	49
1945	794	61
1946	810	67
1947	841	68
1948	756	80
1949	824	69
1950	849	65
1951	825	73
1952	765	85
1953	798	81
1954	697	108
1955	757	93
1956	754	95
1957	767	96
1958	737	100
1959	788	95
1960	797	92
1961	720	113
1962	740	108
1963	773	98
1964	771	97
1965	758	95
1966	703	111
1967	728	104
1968	661	130
1969	643	153
1970	629	166
1971	615	185
1972	597	180
1973	572	192
1974	632	162
1975	603	181
1976	606	182
1977	622	181
1978	642	170
1979	680	158
1980	692	158
1981	667	167
1982	630	189
1983	644	175
1984	593	204
1985	550	255
1986	546	266
1987	568	253
1988	526	301
1989	556	301
1990	467	446
1991	516	372
1992	580	309
1993	628	269
1994	650	257
1995	657	252
1996	657	254
1997	644	258
1998	668	256
1999	657	264
2000	620	303
2001	681	265
2002	680	269
2003	725	251
2004	676	294
Totals:		13,689		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Raphael as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Raphael appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 115 times during the last 125 years.

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Raphael Boy Name

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