Raúl
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Ralph
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: datos.gob.ar, 2015
/raˈul/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Raúl is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 210(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 240
- PEPeru≈1 in 330
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Raúl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #101 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 511 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 212 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900,000 named Rahul, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Raul in AR Argentina, US United States, MX Mexico and 3 more and Rahul in IN India.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Ralph
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Raúl counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #6 | ≈2,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 501 | 49K | Rahul | 351 |
| MX Mexico | #51 | ≈540,000 est. | ≈1 in 241 | 3.1K | Raul | 257 |
| AR Argentina | #38 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 212 | 197 | Raul | 165 |
| ES Spain | #42 | 142,040 | 1 in 352 | 142K | Raul | 256 |
| US United States | #337 | 131,547 | 1 in 2.5K | 131K | Raul | 511 |
| PE Peru | #31 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 327 | — | Raul | 137 |
| SV El Salvador | #97 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 372 | — | Raul | 76 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Raúl is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Del francés Raoul, de Radulf: germánico rat 'consejo' + (w)ulf 'lobo'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Spanish form of RALPH .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- José Raúl Capablancab. 1888CUCuban chess player (1888-1942)
- Raúl Alfonsínb. 1927ARArgentine politician
- Raúl Castrob. 1931CUformer First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
- Raúl Juliáb. 1940USPuerto Rican actor (1940–1994)
- José Raúl Mulinob. 1959PA39th President of Panama
- Raúl González Blancob. 1977ESSpanish association football player
- Raúl Arévalob. 1979ESSpanish actor
- Raúl Albiolb. 1985ESSpanish association football player
- Emiliano Salab. 1990ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player (1990-2019)
- Raúl Jiménezb. 1991MXMexican association football player (born 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2009 | 11 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 8 | — |
| ES Spain | Nombres de Persona en Español (Becker, 2004) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Raúl mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ralph Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Raúl?
- In the etymology graph, Ralph, Ralf and Raoul are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Raúl?
- In Spanish /raˈul/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Raúl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 million people named Rahul in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Raúl a male or female name?
- Raúl is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- How common is the name Raúl?
- In Spain, the national register counted 142,040 people named Raúl, about 1 in 352 residents.
- How common is Raúl compared with other names?
- In India, Raúl is the 6th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ra%C3%BAlThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Raúl” — the 6th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.