MEANING & HISTORY
What does Raúl mean?
Raúl is the accented Spanish form related to French Raoul and English Ralph. Its Germanic ancestry combines counsel with wolf.
Wolf is a traditional animal-name element, not a description of temperament. Raúl and unaccented Raul share a name family while remaining distinct recorded spellings.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
Synthetic voice reading
Wiktionary / Kaikki / Wiktextract · CC BY-SA 4.0
Origin and name formation
Spanish / French / English
Dictionary accounts by language
Spanish
From Old French Raoul, borrowed from a Germanic language, from Frankish *Rādawulf, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Rēdawulfaz.
a male given name, equivalent to English Ralph
Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract; common glosses translated for Filipino.
People with the name Raúl
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Raul M. Gonzalez
Philippine politician (1930–2014)
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Raul Roco
Filipino politician (1941–2005)
Descriptions: Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Similar names to Raúl
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Names in this collection
- Raul♂Counsel and wolf
- Paul♂Small or little
- Rael♂Shortened Israel in the Cebuano account
- Raoul♂Counsel and wolf
- Rae♂♀Short Rachel; also a feminine Ray
- Ralf♂Counsel and wolf
- Ram♂Exalted in Hebrew; also a form of Rama
- Ramil♂Arabic sand-word connection in a documented Eurasian name tradition
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Records & sources
Recorded use
- Wikidata
- 4 person records with this given name · Q18218532 · CC0
These records document use of the spelling; they are separate from birth statistics.