Rochel
Rochel was given to 147 girls in 2025, #1,466 among girls’ names; 4,023 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,920 Americans named Rochel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rochel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rochel?
#1,466 among girls’ names, 2025
Rochel rose from #1,961 in 2015 to #1,466 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 57.7 to 91.5 per million.
147 babies in 2025, the peak
Rochel peaked in 2025, when 147 girls were given it, #1,466 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 121 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,466 | 91.5 |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,694 | 74.7 |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,759 | 72.9 |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,904 | 64.6 |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,846 | 66.4 |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,989 | 58.8 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,627 | 78.1 |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,950 | 60.0 |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,052 | 55.6 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,838 | 63.8 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 103 | #1,961 | 57.7 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,952 | 57.7 |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,925 | 59.3 |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,045 | 53.9 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,342 | 45.5 |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,115 | 52.9 |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,134 | 51.7 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,962 | 57.1 |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,194 | 47.3 |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,202 | 46.3 |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,334 | 41.7 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,578 | 35.4 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,485 | 36.1 |
| 2002 | 87 | #2,013 | 48.4 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,478 | 35.0 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,805 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,245 | 37.8 |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,421 | 32.8 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,087 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,302 | 33.1 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,410 | 30.7 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,863 | 23.5 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,310 | 31.0 |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,228 | 32.5 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,724 | 23.5 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,724 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,638 | 23.3 |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,429 | 25.3 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,426 | 24.7 |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,102 | 29.7 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,896 | 34.3 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,136 | 27.9 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,638 | 20.4 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,276 | 26.0 |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,184 | 28.2 |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,524 | 22.9 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,461 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,916 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,648 | 20.9 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,589 | 21.2 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,495 | 21.9 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,071 | 15.7 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,442 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,253 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,239 | 12.6 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,761 | 14.9 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,427 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,951 | 12.2 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,478 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,506 | 8.3 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,438 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,573 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,196 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,558 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,820 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,798 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,391 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,647 | 9.9 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,122 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,752 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,994 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,668 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,931 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,347 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,300 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,173 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,130 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,953 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rochel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rochel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rochel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rochel, and how old are they?
3,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,023 Americans ever recorded as Rochel. The median Rochel alive today is 19 years old; half are between 9 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 2,992 people named Rochel (2,942 women and girls, 50 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,277 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 150 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 368 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 749 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,440 |
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 Rochel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 74 | #94 | 10.5× |
| New York | 55 | #310 | 7.0× |
Where Rochel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rochel is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1947 it was given 10.5 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 Rochel 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 5,734 babies since 1880, Rochel is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 147 of their 147 babies (100%), again the 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 Rochel
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 Rochel and names like it
- Compare Rochel and RochellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sRochel peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rochel since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Rochel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rochel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.