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Rachell

#4,636 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Rachell has been given to 3,976 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #4,636 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Rachell, 2025

1 in 111,000

Rachell over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rachell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rachell means

Rachell is a given name.

The naming story behind Rachell

Wikidata records Rachell as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q133893470, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,976 girls were recorded with the name Rachell between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,289 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,859 in 2020 to #4,636 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,692 in 2015 to #4,636 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.

How common is Rachell?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 53,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,636
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rachell 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rachell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rachells were born

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

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,793
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (886).

Is Rachell 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
−1,136
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,223
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+56
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.3%
Peak was 1982 (99)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,289
1982

Spellings of Rachell

Rachell is not the most common spelling — Rachel is, with 71.9% against Rachell's 0.50%.

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 Rachell is used

Across 1910–2025, Rachell was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 83,329 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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

Rachell around the world

Where Rachell 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
    2016–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1996–1996
    #2,558
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1972–1991
    #669
    in 1991

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

Rachell in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rachell. Linked forms have their own page here.

Rachel

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rachell by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,636
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,223
Best rank ever
#1,289
1982
Peak year
1982
99 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,976
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Rachell

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

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Names with a curve like Rachell

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

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Sibling names for Rachell

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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