Rachal
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rachal has been given to 1,323 babies in the U.S. since 1925. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1986, with 59 recorded.
Babies named Rachal, 2008
1 in 786,000
Rachal over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rachal?
Rachal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 786,000
- 5 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 378,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 544,916 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rachal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rachal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rachals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rachal was born before 1985 — so the typical Rachal is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 36.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,313
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (483).
Is Rachal rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (59)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.2% average annual change
Spellings of Rachal
Rachal is not the most common spelling — Rachel is, with 82.4% against Rachal's 0.19%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Rachal is used
Across 1910–2025, Rachal was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 273,900 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in 33,333
- 2Texas1 in 100,000
- 3California1 in —
- 4Florida1 in —
- 5Michigan1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Ohio1 in —
- 8Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Rachal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rachal around the world
Where Rachal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales1997–1998#3,848in 1998
- South Australia1971–2006#782in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rachal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rachal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rachal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.