Given name
Rephael
“El heals”·“El has healed”
Rephael is used as a given name.
Original Hebrewרפאל
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Rephael means “El heals” or “El has healed.”
From biblical name research
Where it comes from
Rephael is a biblical name from Hebrew.
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How it developed
From the Hebrew word 'el (אל), “God.”
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1992. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Rephael appears in 1 Chronicles 26:7.
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Rephael through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 76
- 76 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2004
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,709 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,709 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Rephael’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 7
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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