Refal

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.

Babies a year
3
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5927
3 babies

Refal by the numbers

In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Refal.

What we can tell you about Refal

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Refal. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Retal10 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Royalof the king; regal984 in the US (2017)
  • Reganlittle king or descendant of regan244 in the US (2017)
  • Rehanfragrant or sweet-smelling27 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Renaereborn; a form of Renée42 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Rehammercy; compassion7 in England and Wales (2025)

Sounds like Refal

Names that are said the same way as Refal, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Reveilleawakening; a military morning signal6 in the US (2017)
  • Revel23 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Refal

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