Each name has three variations - so you have a choice Rafaela when pronounced rah-fah-EL-ah is written in Japanese as:
This is read rafaera and is a phonetic translation to katakana. Katakana is the standard way names are translated to Japanese and, just like in English, the characters have no meaning. To be absolutely correct when translating names, use katakana as shown above.
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