Racquel
Racquel was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,698 among girls’ names; 4,767 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,590 Americans named Racquel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 30 and 50.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Racquel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Racquel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Racquel is “a female given name from Hebrew; a fanciful spelling of Raquel.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Racquel?
#16,698 among girls’ names, 2025
Racquel fell from #7,900 in 2015 to #16,698 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.1 per million.
193 babies in 1970, the peak
Racquel peaked in 1970, when 193 girls were given it, #759 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,698 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,872 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,759 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,198 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,139 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,145 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,178 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,028 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,481 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,939 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,900 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,564 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,315 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,972 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,333 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,731 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,999 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 37 | #4,253 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,780 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,125 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,924 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,310 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 56 | #2,788 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,766 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,450 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,203 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 102 | #1,642 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 80 | #1,914 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,600 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,377 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,459 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 128 | #1,326 | 0.07 |
| 1993 | 128 | #1,314 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 161 | #1,110 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 145 | #1,194 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 157 | #1,114 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 168 | #1,017 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 185 | #920 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 161 | #982 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 129 | #1,126 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 121 | #1,177 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 105 | #1,234 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 98 | #1,271 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 103 | #1,261 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 88 | #1,404 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 109 | #1,213 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,528 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 83 | #1,407 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,554 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 80 | #1,349 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 127 | #977 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 91 | #1,215 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,023 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 127 | #962 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 171 | #817 | 0.10 |
| 1970 | 193 | #759 | 0.11 |
| 1969 | 162 | #810 | 0.10 |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,053 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 28 | #2,307 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,770 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,897 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,903 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,381 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,786 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,719 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Racquel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Racquel has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Racquel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Racquel, and how old are they?
4,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 4,767 Americans ever recorded as Racquel. The median Racquel alive today is 38 years old; half are between 30 and 50.
The 2020 Census counted 5,172 people named Racquel (5,149 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,597 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 27 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,450 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 912 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 142 |
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 Racquel born?
The states with the most babies named Racquel are California, New York and Texas, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 644 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 503 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 298 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 205 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Florida | 189 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 173 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 159 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 98 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 97 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 81 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Racquel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Racquel is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1951 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 Racquel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Racquel
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 Racquel and names like it
- Compare Racquel and ShannahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRacquel peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Racquel since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Racquel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Racquel alive today were born 1981-1996.
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