Raul
Last seen for girls in 2008 at #17,504 · #634 for boys in 2025, 440 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 1,288 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 88,040since 1904
Raul over time
Rank among boys' names. Raul has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #634 | 440 | |
| 2024 | — | #611 | 466 | |
| 2023 | — | #594 | 477 | |
| 2022 | — | #554 | 539 | |
| 2021 | — | #610 | 455 | |
| 2020 | — | #557 | 505 | |
| 2019 | — | #517 | 552 | |
| 2018 | — | #513 | 551 | |
| 2017 | — | #519 | 556 | |
| 2016 | — | #468 | 652 | |
| 2015 | — | #443 | 693 | |
| 2014 | — | #422 | 727 | |
| 2013 | — | #409 | 722 | |
| 2012 | — | #403 | 722 | |
| 2011 | — | #360 | 835 | |
| 2010 | — | #340 | 926 | |
| 2009 | — | #315 | 1,015 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #288 | 1,180 |
| 2007 | — | #255 | 1,387 | |
| 2006 | — | #255 | 1,355 | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #248 | 1,332 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #242 | 1,381 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #238 | 1,401 |
| 2002 | — | #240 | 1,407 | |
| 2001 | — | #235 | 1,439 | |
| 2000 | — | #223 | 1,519 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #228 | 1,469 |
| 1998 | — | #232 | 1,373 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #219 | 1,406 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #207 | 1,493 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #201 | 1,512 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #199 | 1,452 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | #204 | 1,497 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #207 | 1,488 |
| 1991 | — | #214 | 1,458 | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | #209 | 1,461 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #209 | 1,359 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | #212 | 1,235 |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | #211 | 1,184 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | #208 | 1,164 |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | #218 | 1,108 |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | #208 | 1,106 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | #208 | 1,141 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | #202 | 1,223 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #190 | 1,318 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | #189 | 1,288 |
| 1979 | — | #212 | 1,119 | |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #209 | 1,036 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #217 | 1,016 |
| 1976 | #6,611 | 8 | #199 | 1,111 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #208 | 1,038 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | #209 | 1,065 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #225 | 959 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #212 | 1,050 |
| 1971 | #5,543 | 9 | #211 | 1,116 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | #226 | 1,038 |
| 1969 | — | #248 | 843 | |
| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 | #241 | 885 |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 | #240 | 852 |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | #247 | 844 |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | #263 | 793 |
| 1964 | — | #265 | 836 | |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 | #262 | 852 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #268 | 816 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #267 | 881 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #263 | 905 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 | #272 | 846 |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | #264 | 865 |
| 1957 | — | #259 | 846 | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | #252 | 812 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | #249 | 798 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #248 | 782 |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | #255 | 738 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | #256 | 713 |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | #251 | 704 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | #255 | 646 |
| 1949 | — | #254 | 646 | |
| 1948 | — | #266 | 615 | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #288 | 572 |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | #295 | 482 |
| 1945 | — | #268 | 487 | |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 | #301 | 393 |
| 1943 | — | #318 | 371 | |
| 1942 | — | #325 | 345 | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | #337 | 291 |
| 1940 | — | #325 | 304 | |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | #310 | 322 |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | #315 | 303 |
| 1937 | — | #334 | 264 | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | #320 | 282 |
| 1935 | — | #302 | 324 | |
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 | #307 | 313 |
| 1933 | #3,109 | 8 | #296 | 320 |
| 1932 | — | #302 | 338 | |
| 1931 | — | #290 | 364 | |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | #281 | 408 |
| 1929 | #3,682 | 7 | #271 | 422 |
| 1928 | — | #292 | 375 | |
| 1927 | — | #304 | 361 | |
| 1926 | — | #328 | 306 | |
| 1925 | — | #349 | 282 | |
| 1924 | — | #331 | 307 | |
| 1923 | — | #408 | 217 | |
| 1922 | — | #421 | 203 | |
| 1921 | — | #437 | 195 | |
| 1920 | — | #454 | 179 | |
| 1919 | — | #574 | 109 | |
| 1918 | — | #611 | 101 | |
| 1917 | — | #616 | 93 | |
| 1916 | — | #647 | 82 | |
| 1915 | — | #614 | 88 | |
| 1914 | — | #734 | 51 | |
| 1913 | — | #604 | 53 | |
| 1912 | — | #816 | 29 | |
| 1911 | — | #759 | 18 | |
| 1910 | — | #755 | 16 | |
| 1909 | — | #951 | 10 | |
| 1908 | — | #1,021 | 8 | |
| 1907 | — | — | ||
| 1906 | — | #852 | 9 | |
| 1905 | — | — | ||
| 1904 | — | #874 | 8 | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Raul! It came in at #874, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1905, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Raul
- 23 spots since 2024 (#611 → #634)
- 77 spots since 2020 (#557 → #634)
- 191 spots since 2015 (#443 → #634)
- Biggest jump: 212 spots in 1913 (#816 → #604)
- Biggest drop: 130 spots in 1914 (#604 → #734)
- Debuted 1904
- Peaked 1980 at #189 (1,288 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 37 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 119 yrs · run 1909–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,259 boys born in 1995 were named Raul (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,882 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- Its best rank, #189 in 1980, was only 1 in 1,385 (0.07%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 16.6% of all boys named Raul (14,609) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 35 | #852 (1906) | #925 |
| 1910s | 640 | #574 (1919) | #673 |
| 1920s | 2,847 | #271 (1929) | #360 |
| 1930s | 3,238 | #281 (1930) | #306 |
| 1940s | 4,506 | #254 (1949) | #298 |
| 1950s | 7,750 | #248 (1954) | #256 |
| 1960s | 8,507 | #240 (1967) | #256 |
| 1970s | 10,548 | #199 (1976) | #213 |
| 1980s | 12,126 | #189 (1980) | #206 |
| 1990s | 14,609 | #199 (1994) | #212 |
| 2000s | 13,416 | #223 (2000) | #254 |
| 2010s | 6,936 | #340 (2010) | #439 |
| 2020s | 2,882 | #554 (2022) | #593 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Raul in 1973
Top girls' names in 1973
Top boys' names in 1973
More about 1973
girls
1,458,209 girls got a published name in 1973; 1 in 208,316 of them was named Raul, which outranked 32.0% of the 9,810 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,080Zanita8
- #6,080Zoey8
- #6,080Zsazsa8
- #6,666Raul7
- #6,666Aaryn7
- #6,666Adonna7
- #6,666Afiya7
- #7,435Abagail6
- #7,435Adabel6
- #7,435Adalia6
Tied with 768 names at #6,666; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,558,576 boys got a published name in 1973; 1 in 1,625 of them was named Raul, which outranked 96.2% of the 5,877 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 669Jabbar#917 → #1,586
- ↓ 361Wes#993 → #1,354
- ↓ 326Paris#797 → #1,123
- ↓ 284Christophe#984 → #1,268
- ↓ 272Bennett#851 → #1,123
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.