girls:
318 births since 1908
#5398 (6th percentile)
boys:
22.7k births since 1882
#761 (83rd percentile)
overall:
23k births since 1882
#1670 (78th percentile)
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raphael".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Rafael. View all variations of Rafael.
These names exclude other spelling variations of Rafael. View all variations of Rafael.
Our model has identified 14 different pronunciations for the name Raphael. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.
Our model is 15.1% confident that Raphael is pronounced as RA-fee-uhl. The next most likely pronunciation is RA-fay-ehl, at 15.1% confidence.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like R AE1 F IY0 AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.