girls:
484 births since 1929
#5232 (8th percentile)
boys:
87.1k births since 1904
#335 (93rd percentile)
overall:
87.6k births since 1904
#741 (90th percentile)
The name Raul is the #741 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 87,598 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 90.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 90.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #335 (92.7% percentile) for all time with 87,114 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,232 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 484 births since 1929.
Raul first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for boys and 1929 for girls). Birth data for Raul is available in 118 out of the 120 years between 1904 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 59 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Raul has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Raul reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 75.2% percentile (ranked #199) with 752 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 752 births per million (ranked 75.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Raul ranks #509 for boys (44.2% percentile) with 259 births per million, which is 34.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Raul reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #728) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Raul".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Raul. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.4% confident that Raul is pronounced as rowl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rah-UEL, at 29.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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