Raechel
Raechel was last recorded in 2017, when 5 babies were given it; 2,276 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,200 Americans named Raechel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 29 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raechel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raechel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,851, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
114 babies in 1991, the peak
Raechel peaked in 1991, when 114 girls were given it, #1,414 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 5 | #17,851 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,736 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,230 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,831 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,060 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,195 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,498 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,858 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,857 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,924 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 29 | #4,671 | 15.7 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,459 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,114 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,270 | 23.9 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,836 | 28.9 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,053 | 25.3 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,333 | 36.1 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,601 | 30.0 |
| 1997 | 67 | #2,108 | 38.5 |
| 1996 | 78 | #1,874 | 44.5 |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,632 | 51.7 |
| 1994 | 78 | #1,831 | 43.7 |
| 1993 | 102 | #1,534 | 56.4 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,678 | 48.8 |
| 1991 | 114 | #1,414 | 60.8 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,748 | 44.2 |
| 1989 | 104 | #1,430 | 56.4 |
| 1988 | 87 | #1,537 | 48.9 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,508 | 49.5 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,533 | 46.6 |
| 1985 | 78 | #1,557 | 45.3 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,826 | 35.0 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,791 | 35.9 |
| 1982 | 67 | #1,699 | 39.6 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,977 | 32.4 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,825 | 36.1 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,421 | 24.3 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,340 | 25.5 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,452 | 23.5 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,706 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,229 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,666 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,751 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,846 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,128 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,537 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #4,359 | 7.1 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,945 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,538 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,342 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,537 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,418 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,293 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,914 | 2.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,096 | 3.8 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,301 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raechel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raechel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raechel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raechel, and how old are they?
2,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,276 Americans ever recorded as Raechel. The median Raechel alive today is 35 years old; half are between 29 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 2,102 people named Raechel (2,099 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,219 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 344 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,280 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 529 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 30 |
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 Raechel born?
The states with the most babies named Raechel are California, Michigan and Illinois, with 55% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 186 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 57 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 55 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 40 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 40 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oregon | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Raechel 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 678,204 babies since 1880, Raechel is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,287 babies recorded by SSA was a Raechel (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 Raechel
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 Raechel and names like it
- Compare Raechel and RachelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sRaechel peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raechel since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Raechel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Raechel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.