Nordic Names

Nordic Names

Rafael

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Finland Finnish
Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Iceland Icelandic
Greenland Greenlandic
Faroe Islands Faroese

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Origin and Meaning

1) Deriving from the Hebrew name רָפָאֵל (Rafa'el) meaning 'God has healed' [1] [2] [3] [4]

First element (Rafa-):

Hebrew rafa = 'heals'

Last element (-el):

Hebrew el = 'the Lord, God' (see ELI)

2) "Latinisation" of Ragnvaldr [1]

Related Names

Raafael ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Finish
Rafael ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Faroese Finish Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish
Raffael ♂ Danish Finish Swedish
Raffel ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Norwegian Swedish
Raphael ♂
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
 Danish Finish Norwegian Old Swedish Swedish

See also Raahvaeli (Finnish), Rabbe, Rafal (Polish), Rafaël (Dutch), Raffa, Raffaele (Italian), Rafi (Hebrew), Raphaël (French), Râvfaile (Greenlandic)

For female forms see Rafaela

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Rafaelsson Faroe Islands Iceland

Female

Rafaelsdóttir Faroe Islands Iceland

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Rafael
Genitive: Rafaels
Faroe Islands - Faroese
Nominative: Rafael
Accusative: Rafael
Dative: Rafaeli
Genitive: Rafaels
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Rafael
Genitive: Rafaelin
Partitive: Rafaelia
Iceland - Icelandic
Nominative: Rafael
Accusative: Rafael
Dative: Rafael
Genitive: Rafaels
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Rafael
Genitive: Rafaels
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Rafael
Genitive: Rafaels

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

22 December

Sweden Sweden

24 March

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Bible

  • Rafael is one of the archangels

Namesakes

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 398 people were named Rafael (percentage of first or only given name: 10 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&		as
main
name#		also
middle
name&
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
 12958 0 0
n.a.
 12958
Sweden Sweden[8]
1175 2526 0 15 1175 2511
Denmark Denmark[9]
272
n.a.
 1
n.a.
 271
n.a.
Iceland Iceland[10]
59 95
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[11]
11 46
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[12]
434
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
 434
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Rafael (m) Sources: [8][9][12][7]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  5. ↑ Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  11. ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
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