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Rochel

#1,466 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Rachel

Rochel has been given to 4,023 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #1,466 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 147 recorded.

Babies named Rochel, 2025

1 in 22,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rochel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Rachel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rochel means

Rochel is a form of Rachel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Rochel → 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, 4,023 girls were recorded with the name Rochel between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 147 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,466 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,989 in 2020 to #1,466 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,961 in 2015 to #1,466 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 Rochel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,600
147 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,466
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rochel 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,633 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rochel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rochels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rochel was born before 2006 — so the typical Rochel is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
61.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,008
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Choose a decade

2010s — 25.4% of all recorded uses (1,021).

Is Rochel 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
+228
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+523
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+495
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (147)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,466
2025

Spellings of Rochel

Rochel is not the most common spelling — Rachel is, with 77.5% against Rochel's 0.54%.

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 Rochel is used

Across 1910–2025, Rochel was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,571 girls, against 1 in 13,609 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

028 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,571
  2. 2New York1 in 6,667
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Maryland1 in —
  5. 5Ohio1 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. Rochel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rochel around the world

Where Rochel 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Rochel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,466
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 523
Best rank ever
#1,466
2025
Peak year
2025
147 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,023
Count in 2025
147

Names similar to Rochel

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

MichelBethelRocioRashelIxchelRochellRockyRockieRuchelMishelRaechelGrethelRochelleRechelRocklynRocheleRahelEathelRaychelRockiRockellRochellaRockelleRocquel

Names with a curve like Rochel

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

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Sibling names for Rochel

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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