# Raul (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/raul/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Spanish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 88,524 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 88,040 / 484 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 785, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 12 | 6,228 |
| 1988 | 12 | 6,574 |
| 1989 | 10 | 7,888 |
| 1990 | 14 | 6,379 |
| 1992 | 12 | 7,402 |
| 1993 | 14 | 6,531 |
| 1994 | 5 | 15,161 |
| 1995 | 9 | 9,364 |
| 1996 | 6 | 13,068 |
| 1997 | 6 | 13,338 |
| 1999 | 5 | 16,280 |
| 2003 | 6 | 15,320 |
| 2004 | 5 | 18,175 |
| 2005 | 8 | 12,752 |
| 2008 | 5 | 19,798 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 835 | 360 |
| 2012 | 722 | 404 |
| 2013 | 722 | 409 |
| 2014 | 727 | 422 |
| 2015 | 693 | 443 |
| 2016 | 652 | 468 |
| 2017 | 556 | 520 |
| 2018 | 551 | 514 |
| 2019 | 552 | 519 |
| 2020 | 505 | 557 |
| 2021 | 455 | 612 |
| 2022 | 539 | 554 |
| 2023 | 477 | 595 |
| 2024 | 466 | 612 |
| 2025 | 440 | 634 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 1,303 |
| 2012 | 20 | 1,270 |
| 2013 | 18 | 1,339 |
| 2014 | 24 | 1,117 |
| 2015 | 33 | 903 |
| 2016 | 38 | 833 |
| 2017 | 52 | 673 |
| 2018 | 42 | 777 |
| 2019 | 36 | 844 |
| 2020 | 35 | 845 |
| 2021 | 46 | 738 |
| 2022 | 38 | 825 |
| 2023 | 31 | 965 |
| 2024 | 19 | 1,402 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,538 |

## People named Raul

- Raúl Castro, former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
- Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine politician
- José Raúl Mulino, 39th President of Panama
- Raul Khadjimba, Abkhazian politician
- Raúl de Tomás, Catalán footballer
- Raúl Ruiz, filmmaker (1941-2011)
- Raúl Cubas Grau, 45.° President of Paraguay
- Raul Hilberg, Austrian-born American political scientist and historian (1926–2007)
- Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Ecuadorian archbishop and cardinal (1934–2020)
- Raúl Castillo, American actor and playwright
- Raúl Grijalva, American politician (1948–2025)
- Raul Maldonado, Argentine association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.