Rashel
Rashel was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,950 among girls’ names; 1,202 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,180 Americans named Rashel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rashel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rashel?
#9,950 among girls’ names, 2025
Rashel fell from #7,531 in 2015 to #9,950 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 6.2 per million.
80 babies in 2008, the peak
Rashel peaked in 2008, when 80 girls were given it, #2,413 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,950 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,346 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,468 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,043 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,103 | 6.2 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,248 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,222 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,767 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,531 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,744 | 16.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 14 | #8,477 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,576 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 28 | #5,028 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,931 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,345 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,413 | 42.3 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,194 | 14.6 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,773 | 15.8 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,708 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,254 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 49 | #3,075 | 26.8 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,376 | 22.8 |
| 2001 | 67 | #2,370 | 37.2 |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,149 | 41.3 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,359 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,626 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,170 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,986 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,580 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,477 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,942 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,929 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,167 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,762 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,467 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,568 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,015 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,154 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,596 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,171 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,072 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,991 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,227 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,240 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,658 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,032 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,857 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,531 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,897 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,390 | 9.5 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,724 | 7.9 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,257 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 17 | #3,680 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,576 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,513 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,597 | 3.6 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,547 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rashel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rashel 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 Rashel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rashel, and how old are they?
1,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,202 Americans ever recorded as Rashel. The median Rashel alive today is 25 years old; half are between 18 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,215 people named Rashel (1,173 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 241 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 619 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 151 |
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 Rashel born?
The states with the most babies named Rashel are California, Florida and New York, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 115 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 72 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 62 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 28 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Rashel 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,714 babies since 1880, Rashel is the second most given (44% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 40 babies (25%), again the second 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 Rashel
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 Rashel and names like it
- Compare Rashel and RashellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sRashel peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rashel since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Rashel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Rashel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with RMost given first.