Baby name
FADING
🇵🇱 Rafał
/RAH · fahw/
Meaning
“God has healed”
Polish form of the Hebrew Raphael, meaning God has healed; the hook under the l (ogonek) marks it as distinctly Polish, and it carried a wave of popularity tied to Polish Catholicism.
Nicknames
rafek
Vibe
gentle
How it ages.
Well-established Polish classic; peaked in the 1980s but ages without embarrassment.
The cultural moment.
Top 20 in Poland during the 1980s and 1990s; still in regular use but declining in new births since 2005.