Raul

Where Raul comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Raul.

  • Spanish
Raul through the years
  1. 1904
    First appearance
    #874 among boys with 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, its best rank.
  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.