Rachele
Rachele was last recorded in 2010, when 7 babies were given it; 3,316 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,100 Americans named Rachele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 37 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rachele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rachele mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Rachele is “a female given name”
/raˈkɛ.le/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rachele?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,620, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
125 babies in 1984, the peak
Rachele peaked in 1984, when 125 girls were given it, #1,108 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #14,620 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,990 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,621 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,607 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,562 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,505 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,486 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,046 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,510 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,257 | 16.0 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 30 | #3,941 | 16.9 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,336 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,760 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,656 | 26.8 |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,016 | 38.7 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,395 | 30.2 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,138 | 34.8 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,996 | 37.4 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,668 | 47.5 |
| 1990 | 117 | #1,358 | 61.6 |
| 1989 | 95 | #1,514 | 51.5 |
| 1988 | 110 | #1,316 | 61.8 |
| 1987 | 92 | #1,426 | 52.9 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,321 | 58.9 |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,344 | 56.9 |
| 1984 | 125 | #1,108 | 74.2 |
| 1983 | 98 | #1,270 | 58.7 |
| 1982 | 107 | #1,235 | 63.2 |
| 1981 | 100 | #1,282 | 59.9 |
| 1980 | 94 | #1,349 | 56.6 |
| 1979 | 91 | #1,360 | 56.7 |
| 1978 | 86 | #1,370 | 56.1 |
| 1977 | 81 | #1,399 | 52.8 |
| 1976 | 85 | #1,294 | 58.0 |
| 1975 | 89 | #1,265 | 61.0 |
| 1974 | 88 | #1,250 | 60.0 |
| 1973 | 95 | #1,158 | 65.1 |
| 1972 | 90 | #1,202 | 59.2 |
| 1971 | 98 | #1,174 | 58.9 |
| 1970 | 80 | #1,326 | 45.8 |
| 1969 | 86 | #1,206 | 51.0 |
| 1968 | 78 | #1,242 | 47.5 |
| 1967 | 57 | #1,490 | 34.5 |
| 1966 | 31 | #2,137 | 18.3 |
| 1965 | 37 | #1,907 | 21.0 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,855 | 21.6 |
| 1963 | 37 | #1,941 | 19.2 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,447 | 12.7 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,234 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,643 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,094 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,728 | 9.4 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,118 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,909 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,337 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,285 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,231 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,389 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,783 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,231 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,119 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,123 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,932 | 2.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,534 | 3.2 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,983 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,749 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,658 | 5.9 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,357 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,856 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,413 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rachele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rachele has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rachele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rachele, and how old are they?
3,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 3,316 Americans ever recorded as Rachele. The median Rachele alive today is 44 years old; half are between 37 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 3,150 people named Rachele (3,143 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,155 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 259 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,180 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 255 |
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).
Where are babies named Rachele born?
The states with the most babies named Rachele are California, New York and Ohio, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 376 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 256 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 143 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 140 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 123 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 78 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 51 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 36 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rachele with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Rachele?
Rachele is a less common spelling of Rachelle: SSA has recorded 3,316 Rachele and 33,970 Rachelle since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 38,569 babies since 1880, Rachele is the second most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 46 babies recorded by SSA was a Rachele (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 Rachele
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 Rachele and names like it
- Compare Rachele and RachelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRachele peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rachele since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Rachele: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Rachele.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rachele alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.