Raul

What Raul means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Raul yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 1,519 babies; 440 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Raul?

US: Falling: down from #443 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #903 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1995, when 1,512 boys got the name (#201 that year). First in the US records in 1904.

How common

• About 1 in 3,882 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 15,996 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.08 per 1,000 boys), TX (0.81 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.8 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Raul is #634 in the US and #1538 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Raul were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Roel54 US · 13 E&W
• Rael53 US · 6 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Raul

Boys

• Francisco#322Same root as Francis, meaning “Frankish (man); a Frank”^*
• Jose#95Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Alberto#819Spanish and Italian form of Albert, meaning “noble + bright, famous”^*
• Ricardo#380Same root as Richard, meaning “king, ruler + hard, brave”^*
• Jaime#657Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1980, with 1,462 babies; 420 in 2025
• Ernesto#878Spanish form of Ernest, meaning “vigor, strife”^*

For a sister

• Alejandra#604Same root as Alexandra, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Angelica#707Italian, meaning “angelic”^*
• Andrea#235Feminine form of Andreas, meaning “manly”^*
• Bianca#500Form of Blanche, meaning “white”^*
• Ana#245Editor’s note Down from #211 in 2015 to #245 in 2025 in the US
• Angel#546Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2002, with 3,100 babies; 551 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Spanish & Italian, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Raul’s. Rank is US 2025.