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Rachyl

Girls' name

Variant of Rachel

Rachyl has been given to 191 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 1994, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Rachyl, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rachyl: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Rachel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rachyl means

Rachyl is a variant of Rachel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rachyl is used in English (Rare).

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rachyl → 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, 191 girls were recorded with the name Rachyl between 1987 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,909 in 1994.

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 Rachyl?

Rachyl 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 Rachyl 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rachyl. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rachyls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rachyl was born before 1996 — so the typical Rachyl is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
58.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
191
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 58.1% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Rachyl 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 1994 (16)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,909
1994

Spellings of Rachyl

Rachyl is not the most common spelling — Rachel is, with 83.7% against Rachyl's 0.03%.

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 Rachyl is used

Across 1910–2025, Rachyl was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Rachyl has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rachyl 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
#5,909
1994
Peak year
1994
16 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
191
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rachyl

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

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Sibling names for Rachyl

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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