Raul

Where Raul comes from

The dictionaries list Raul as a given name — a male given name from Spanish, an Anglicized form of Spanish Raúl — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Spanish
Along the way
  1. 1904
    First appearance
    #874 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Raul Khadjimba born
    Abkhazian politician
  3. 1980
    Peak, #189
    1,288 babies named Raul — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1983
    Raul Meireles born
    Portuguese association football player
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #519.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Spanish, an Anglicized form of Spanish Raúl.
Namesakes
  • Raul Meireles · Portuguese association football player, born 1983
  • Raul Khadjimba · Abkhazian politician, born 1958
  • Raul Hilberg · Austrian-born American political scientist and historian, 1926–2007
  • Raul Rusescu · Romanian footballer, born 1988
  • Raul Maldonado · Argentine association football player, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.