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Racheal

#14,520 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Rachel

Racheal has been given to 10,520 babies in the U.S. since 1910. In 2025 it ranked #14,520 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 388 recorded.

Babies named Racheal, 2025

1 in 553,000

Racheal over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Racheal: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rachel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Racheal means

Racheal is a variant of Rachel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Racheal is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹeɪ.t͡ʃəl/ for Racheal.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Racheal → Rachel. The family’s meaning is “ewe”, recorded in English with the source elements rāḫēl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Rachel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,520 girls were recorded with the name Racheal between 1910 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 388 in 1985; its best national rank was #518 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,975 in 2020 to #14,520 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,196 in 2015 to #14,520 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Racheal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,520
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Racheal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Racheal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Racheals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Racheal was born before 1986 — so the typical Racheal is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
9,970
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (3,374).

Is Racheal 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,455
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,324
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.5%
Peak was 1985 (388)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#518
1985

Spellings of Racheal

Racheal is not the most common spelling — Rachel is, with 79.2% against Racheal's 1.5%.

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 Racheal is used

Across 1910–2025, Racheal was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 21,301 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 11,111
  2. 2Tennessee1 in 11,111
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 12,500
  4. 4Florida1 in 12,500
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 12,500
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 14,286
  7. 7Michigan1 in 14,286
  8. 8Missouri1 in 14,286

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. Racheal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Racheal around the world

Where Racheal 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 & Wales
    1996–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1988–2002
    #640
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    1979–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1991–2013
    #3,199
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1966–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Racheal

People whose public names include Racheal, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Racheal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,520
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,455
Best rank ever
#518
1985
Peak year
1985
388 that year
First recorded
1910
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,520
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Racheal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Racheal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Racheal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Racheal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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