Raechelle
Raechelle was last recorded in 2006, when 8 babies were given it; 589 Americans have been recorded with it between 1962 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raechelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raechelle?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,318, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1988, the peak
Raechelle peaked in 1988, when 29 girls were given it, #3,369 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | #13,318 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,965 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,145 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,287 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,142 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,723 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,133 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,070 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,526 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,029 | 7.4 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 24 | #4,312 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,647 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,938 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,554 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 17 | #5,589 | 9.1 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,760 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,977 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,369 | 16.3 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,308 | 16.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,895 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,402 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,590 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,370 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,290 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,510 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,464 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,869 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,129 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,178 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,826 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,895 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,385 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,910 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,847 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,465 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,190 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,650 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,511 | 4.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,407 | 5.9 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,389 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raechelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raechelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raechelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raechelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 566 Americans named Raechelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 33 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 561 people named Raechelle (561 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 572 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 38,569 babies since 1880, Raechelle is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 46 babies recorded by SSA was a Raechelle (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 Raechelle
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 Raechelle and names like it
- Compare Raechelle and RachelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sRaechelle peaked in 1988.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Raechelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Raechelle.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Raechelle alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with RMost given first.