Rafal

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Origin and Meaning

Nordic spelling of Rafał, a Polish form of Rafael ^[1]

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Polish

Rafal is a common name among immigrants from Poland, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background

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Country	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&	as main name^#	also middle name^&
Sweden^[2]	876	1154	72	79	804	1075
Norway^[3]	1383	n.a.	11	n.a.	1372	n.a.
Denmark^[4]	442	n.a.	3	n.a.	439	n.a.
Iceland^[5]	263	325	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Finland^[6]	n.a.	817	n.a.	7	n.a.	810
Greenland^[7]	0	0	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	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.

Norwegian historic statistics for Rafal (m)

↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/