Raychelle — girls' name
603 babies named Raychelle in U.S. Social Security records since 1962, with the highest year being 1994. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
29% of everyone ever named Raychelle was born in this single decade.
30 babies were named Raychelle in 1994 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Raychelle
The Social Security Administration has registered 603 babies named Raychelle between 1962 and 2010, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Raychelle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 30 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Raychelle performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 177 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Raychelle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Raychelle in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Raychelle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 603 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Raychelle at a glance
Last recorded 2010Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Raychelle popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2010–1962
- Peak year (1994)
- 30
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2010.
603 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1994 with 30 births in a single year.
Raychelle by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 177 births that decade — 29% of Raychelle's all-time total
Raychelle decade highlights
- Peak decade 177 births
- Runner-up 176 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Raychelle's strongest decade
177 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Raychelle by state
Where Raychelle concentrates geographically — total births since 1962
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 14 | 2.3% |
14 of 603 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 2.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 2.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1962–2010 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.