Rachelle
Rachelle was given to 46 girls in 2025, #3,374 among girls’ names; 33,970 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 31,400 Americans named Rachelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 36 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rachelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rachelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rachelle is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
20th-century variant of Rachel, from French Rachelle, or possibly coined independently of it.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rachelle?
#3,374 among girls’ names, 2025
Rachelle fell from #2,072 in 2015 to #3,374 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.2 to 28.6 per million.
997 babies in 1971, the peak
Rachelle peaked in 1971, when 997 girls were given it, #285 among girls’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #3,374 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,215 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,628 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,402 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,475 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,532 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,808 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,553 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,896 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,755 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (115)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,072 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,150 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,482 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 89 | #2,140 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,755 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,710 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,819 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,557 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,414 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 209 | #1,164 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 186 | #1,224 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 220 | #1,055 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 265 | #901 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 243 | #920 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 298 | #793 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 283 | #804 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 294 | #756 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 330 | #688 | 0.19 |
| 1997 | 338 | #654 | 0.19 |
| 1996 | 441 | #534 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 480 | #511 | 0.27 |
| 1994 | 614 | #408 | 0.34 |
| 1993 | 634 | #398 | 0.35 |
| 1992 | 696 | #369 | 0.38 |
| 1991 | 775 | #339 | 0.41 |
| 1990 | 835 | #330 | 0.44 |
| 1989 | 868 | #300 | 0.47 |
| 1988 | 906 | #278 | 0.51 |
| 1987 | 873 | #282 | 0.50 |
| 1986 | 922 | #270 | 0.54 |
| 1985 | 925 | #272 | 0.54 |
| 1984 | 948 | #259 | 0.56 |
| 1983 | 909 | #264 | 0.54 |
| 1982 | 885 | #275 | 0.52 |
| 1981 | 844 | #288 | 0.51 |
| 1980 | 949 | #265 | 0.57 |
| 1979 | 843 | #288 | 0.53 |
| 1978 | 783 | #295 | 0.51 |
| 1977 | 676 | #338 | 0.44 |
| 1976 | 770 | #299 | 0.53 |
| 1975 | 789 | #298 | 0.54 |
| 1974 | 776 | #304 | 0.53 |
| 1973 | 882 | #279 | 0.60 |
| 1972 | 898 | #285 | 0.59 |
| 1971 | 997 | #285 | 0.60 |
| 1970 | 989 | #294 | 0.57 |
| 1969 | 946 | #296 | 0.56 |
| 1968 | 785 | #312 | 0.48 |
| 1967 | 598 | #371 | 0.36 |
| 1966 | 436 | #448 | 0.26 |
| 1965 | 378 | #486 | 0.21 |
| 1964 | 413 | #475 | 0.22 |
| 1963 | 376 | #502 | 0.20 |
| 1962 | 358 | #516 | 0.18 |
| 1961 | 376 | #506 | 0.19 |
| 1960 | 298 | #570 | 0.15 |
| 1959 | 274 | #601 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 228 | #657 | 0.11 |
| 1957 | 214 | #673 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 277 | #564 | 0.14 |
| 1955 | 181 | #698 | 0.09 |
| 1954 | 175 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 154 | #734 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 125 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 116 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1950 | 111 | #829 | 0.06 |
| 1949 | 101 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 84 | #953 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 84 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 65 | #1,055 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 49 | #1,124 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,306 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,396 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,692 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,982 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,732 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,984 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,698 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,547 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,814 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,700 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,104 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,803 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,009 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,744 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,049 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,349 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,266 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,106 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,744 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,977 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,484 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,524 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,466 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,232 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,529 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,135 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,894 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,790 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rachelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rachelle has been given almost only to girls: 37 boys in 115 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rachelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rachelle, and how old are they?
31,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 33,970 Americans ever recorded as Rachelle. The median Rachelle alive today is 45 years old; half are between 36 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 30,888 people named Rachelle (30,857 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31,842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 170 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3,250 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 11,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 776 |
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 Rachelle born?
The states with the most babies named Rachelle are California, New York and Michigan, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5,516 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 2,187 | #2,345 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 1,995 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 1,689 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 1,494 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,350 | #1,568 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 1,172 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 1,039 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Illinois | 950 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 944 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Rachelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rachelle is most over-represented in Utah: since 1911 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Rachelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 38,569 babies since 1880, Rachelle is the most given (88% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 46 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Rachelle
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 Rachelle and names like it
- Compare Rachelle and RacheleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRachelle peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rachelle since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Rachelle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Rachelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Rachelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.