Rafaĺ
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rafaĺ is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common given name.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 28K
- USUnited States1 in 145K
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 Rafaĺ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 255 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
260,328 named Rafał, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rafal in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 3 more and Rafał in PL Poland.
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)
Rafal är en bl.a. polsk form av → Rafael. RagnRagn- är en germansk förled, som förekommer i både mans- och kvinnonamn. Ordet kommer av germanskt *raʒina-, i t.ex. gotiskans ragin ’råd, beslut’, fornvästnordiskans rǫgn, regin (båda pluralis) ’makter, gudamakter’. Som personnamnselement har ordet snarast haft betydelsen ’råd, beslut’, men det kan i Norden sekundärt ha fått en religiös tolkning. Exempel på namn där förleden ingår är Ragna, Ragnar, Ragnhild.
Sources 2
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rafaĺ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #39 | 260,328as Rafał | 1 in 147 | 261K | Rafał | 219 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 18 | Rafal | 142 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Rafal | 126 |
| US United States | — | 2,298 | 1 in 145K | 2.2K | Rafal | 255 |
| NO Norway | #871 | 1,470 | 1 in 3.7K | 4.1K | Rafal | 49 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,275 | 1 in 8K | 1.3K | Rafal | 28 |
| IE Ireland | #435 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Rafal | 53 |
| IS Iceland | — | 315 | 1 in 1.1K | 315 | — | — |
260,328 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Rafaĺ a male or female name?
- Rafaĺ is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Rafaĺ have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 260 thousand people named Rafał, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rafaĺ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rafaĺ is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rafaĺ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,298 people named Rafaĺ in 2020, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
- How common is Rafaĺ compared with other names?
- In Poland, Rafaĺ is the 39th most common given name of 25,969 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/rafa%C4%BAThe 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, “Rafaĺ” — the 39th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.