Raizel
Raizel was given to 65 girls in 2025, #2,681 among girls’ names; 1,763 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Raizel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Raizel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Raizel?
#2,681 among girls’ names, 2025
Raizel rose from #3,425 in 2015 to #2,681 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 26.3 to 40.4 per million.
91 babies in 2024, the peak
Raizel peaked in 2024, when 91 girls were given it, #2,116 among girls’ names. The 65 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,681 | 40.4 |
| 2024 | 91 | #2,116 | 56.2 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,332 | 49.2 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,990 | 34.1 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,883 | 36.0 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,956 | 34.0 |
| 2019 | 63 | #2,722 | 37.5 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,094 | 31.2 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,375 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,316 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #3,425 | 26.3 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,308 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 54 | #3,068 | 30.8 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,454 | 26.7 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,165 | 30.1 |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,800 | 23.1 |
| 2009 | 41 | #3,852 | 22.3 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,693 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,769 | 22.4 |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,063 | 19.5 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,925 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,376 | 24.5 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,089 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,575 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,961 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,752 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,485 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,904 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,963 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,229 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,397 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,632 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,866 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,483 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,125 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,337 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,764 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,520 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,013 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,985 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,236 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,793 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,513 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,883 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,122 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,808 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,141 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,856 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,585 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,289 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,737 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,695 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,112 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,008 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,954 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,798 | 3.0 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,516 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Raizel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Raizel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Raizel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Raizel, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,763 Americans ever recorded as Raizel. The median Raizel alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,132 people named Raizel (1,124 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,353 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 107 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 276 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 581 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 762 |
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 Raizel born?
The states with the most babies named Raizel are New York, New Jersey and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 25 | #674 | 9.6× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #609 | 4.8× |
| California | 5 | #3,424 | 0.1× |
Where Raizel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Raizel is most over-represented in New York: since 1953 it was given 9.6 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 Raizel 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 Raizel
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 Raizel and names like it
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