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Raphaelle

Gender
Girl
Say it
rah-fah-EL
Origin
Hebrew
UK rank, 2025
#3,101 for girls

Raphaelle is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “God has healed”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).

What does Raphaelle mean?

Hebrew: French feminine of Raphael

“God has healed”

Feminine of Raphael, the archangel who guides Tobias in the Book of Tobit.

Is Raphaelle a girl's or a boy's name?

Raphaelle is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Raphaelle in the UK?

Rank in 2025
3,101st among girls
Babies in 2025
8 about 1 in 35,000 girls
Five-year trend
Rising up 40% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Raphaelle, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th.

2025 had the most girls named Raphaelle of any year since it first appeared, in 1997.

Half of all the girls named Raphaelle in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.

1997Busiest: 8 in 20252025
Raphaelle in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#3,101
20246#3,758
20230–
20224#4,870
20210–
20204#4,744
20196#3,738
20180–
20174#4,967
20167#3,389
20154#4,951
20143#5,920
20130–
20120–
20113#6,007
20106#3,715
20095#4,141
20084#4,742
20070–
20065#3,724
20050–
20043#4,789
20033#4,560
20023#4,284
20010–
20000–
19993#4,041
19983#4,026
19971#5,110

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Raphaelle: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/raphaelle, updated 20 October 2026.