Rachella

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Rachella has been given to 91 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1974, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Rachella, 1993

1 in 538,000

Rachella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Rachella had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993
1 in 538,000
7 of 3,768,729 births
Among girls only
1 in 258,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1993
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
373,185 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rachella 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 1993 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 373,185 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rachella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rachellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rachella was born before 1974 — so the typical Rachella is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
57.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
91
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 57.1% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Rachella 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 1974 (9)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,107
1974

Spellings of Rachella

Rachella is not the most common spelling — Rachel is, with 82.4% against Rachella's 0.01%.

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.

Rachella around the world

Where Rachella 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.

  • South Australia
    1958–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rachella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,107
1974
Peak year
1974
9 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
91
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rachella

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

Sibling names for Rachella

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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