Girls' name · since 2022

Reichel

Reichel has 18 recorded births since 2022 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.

#47,234 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,072 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
18
born since 2022
2020s
peak decade

Yes -- Reichel is the #13072 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 18 recorded since 2022.

Reichel has 18 recorded births among girls since 2022, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #13072 as of the latest data, more common than 24% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2022 to 2025.

  • #47,234 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #13,072 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 18 born since 2022
  • 2020s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Reichel ranks #47,234 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,072 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 18 born since 2022, peaking in the 2020s.

#47,234 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#13,072 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
18
born since 2022
2020s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%24.4%
Reichel vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Reichel's 18 recorded births place it above 34.45% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Reichel compares

18 7th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Reichel's all-time total is 95% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Reichel Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 18 376 567,345
Peak-year births 7 21 19,840

Reichel's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Splitting Reichel's full recorded timeline at 2024, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2024, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.

Reichel popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2025)
7
Annual births at peak, across 4 years of records
4.555.566.577.5 202220242025 7

Reichel by decade

2020s is the heaviest window (18 births, 100% of the file).

2020s was Reichel's strongest decade.

18 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.

Reichel births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2020s at 18 births (100% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Reichel?
Reichel has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 2022, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #47,234 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #13,072 of 17,297. 7 babies were born in 2025, its single highest year.
Where does Reichel sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Reichel ranks #47,234 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #13,072 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Reichel most popular?
Reichel was most popular in the 2020s decade with 18 total births. The single peak year was 2025.
How long has the name Reichel been used?
Records for Reichel go back to 2022, giving 4 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Reichel?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Reina, Reign, Reilly, Reita, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Reichel: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2022–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Reichel draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.