Raul

“Wolf counsel” — Spanish, from Old English (via Radulf) origin

Boy's name · #634 in the US (2025) · 90s

Raul reached its best rank, #190, in 1980 and ranked #634 in 2025. About 88,000 boys have carried it since 1904. Its center of gravity has moved: strongest in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, strongest in the West today.

Around the world: #91 in Spain (2024).

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 28 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Rauls

Raúl Castro — former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Raúl — Spanish association football player
Raúl Albiol — Spanish association football player
Raúl Alfonsín — Argentine politician
Raul Meireles — Portuguese association football player

In stories & tradition

Raul Bautista — Grand Theft Auto HD universe
Raúl Yebenes — The Exterminating Angel
Raul Nord — Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

What Rauls become

Among 2,258 notable people named Raul:

Sports figures appear 1.51× more often than among typical names — e.g. Raúl, Spanish association football player.

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