Rachal
Rachal was last recorded in 2008, when 5 babies were given it; 1,323 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,260 Americans named Rachal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 34 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rachal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rachal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,763, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 1986, the peak
Rachal peaked in 1986, when 59 girls were given it, #1,904 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | #19,763 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,106 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,736 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,504 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,251 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,619 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,549 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,722 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,940 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,298 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 32 | #3,600 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,342 | 20.0 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,747 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 33 | #3,417 | 18.5 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,200 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,668 | 24.9 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,574 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,422 | 26.9 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,794 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,142 | 30.3 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,603 | 22.4 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,904 | 34.4 |
| 1985 | 55 | #1,992 | 32.0 |
| 1984 | 53 | #1,951 | 31.5 |
| 1983 | 39 | #2,415 | 23.3 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,942 | 32.5 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,183 | 28.2 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,332 | 25.3 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,175 | 28.7 |
| 1978 | 34 | #2,551 | 22.2 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,545 | 22.2 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,586 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,124 | 28.1 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,891 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,890 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,720 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,927 | 14.4 |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,178 | 12.0 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,986 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,944 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,041 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,405 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,786 | 4.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,061 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,804 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,685 | 3.1 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,092 | 3.8 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,611 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rachal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rachal has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rachal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rachal, and how old are they?
1,260 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,323 Americans ever recorded as Rachal. The median Rachal alive today is 41 years old; half are between 34 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,468 people named Rachal (1,460 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 22 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 371 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 698 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 170 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 678,204 babies since 1880, Rachal is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,287 babies recorded by SSA was a Rachal (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rachal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rachal and names like it
- Compare Rachal and RachelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRachal peaked in 1986.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rachal since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Rachal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rachal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.