Meaning not yet researched.
Rachael: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #98 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #98 in 1987; #5,066 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rachael in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,066 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #98.
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Rachael: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #98 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 3,028 (1990).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Rachael, making it the 5,066th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,119 places from #3,947 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 38 girls named Rachael in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #98, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,028, in 1990. For comparison, it was #1,300 in 2015 and #969 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rachael in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 82,650 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 25,788 babies named Rachael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 759 US girls were named Rachael; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 163. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rachel (575,748 babies since 1880), Racheal (10,520 babies since 1880), Rachell (3,976 babies since 1880) and Rachele (3,316 babies since 1880). The open nickname list we use links it to Rach.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Rachael is listed as a nickname for Rachel.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,066 | — | — |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,947 | — | — |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,357 | — | — |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 2019 | 80 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 2017 | 116 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 2016 | 163 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2015 | 185 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 2014 | 210 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 2013 | 244 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 2012 | 296 | #895 | — | — |
| 2011 | 321 | #826 | — | — |
| 2010 | 410 | #698 | — | — |
| 2009 | 491 | #616 | — | — |
| 2008 | 658 | #481 | — | — |
| 2007 | 834 | #393 | — | — |
| 2006 | 814 | #393 | — | — |
| 2005 | 797 | #392 | — | — |
| 2004 | 845 | #369 | 6 | #11,006 |
| 2003 | 971 | #320 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,041 | #300 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,304 | #244 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,389 | #228 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,654 | #187 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,744 | #170 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,039 | #154 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,485 | #128 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,606 | #120 | — | — |
| 1994 | 2,553 | #124 | — | — |
| 1993 | 2,746 | #117 | 5 | #9,816 |
| 1992 | 2,745 | #123 | — | — |
| 1991 | 2,915 | #114 | — | — |
| 1990 | 3,028 | #111 | 7 | #6,982 |
| 1989 | 2,833 | #109 | 16 | #3,579 |
| 1988 | 2,831 | #100 | 9 | #5,116 |
| 1987 | 2,833 | #98 | 17 | #3,044 |
| 1986 | 2,699 | #103 | 11 | #4,061 |
| 1985 | 2,761 | #100 | 7 | #5,601 |
| 1984 | 2,652 | #103 | 9 | #4,462 |
| 1983 | 2,410 | #123 | 12 | #3,570 |
| 1982 | 2,473 | #120 | 14 | #3,246 |
| 1981 | 2,131 | #132 | 11 | #3,796 |
| 1980 | 2,047 | #142 | 12 | #3,566 |
| 1979 | 1,852 | #152 | 10 | #4,010 |
| 1978 | 1,694 | #162 | 6 | #5,596 |
| 1977 | 1,487 | #185 | 5 | #6,612 |
| 1976 | 1,438 | #177 | 6 | #5,442 |
| 1975 | 1,376 | #185 | 7 | #4,665 |
| 1974 | 1,188 | #215 | 5 | #5,805 |
| 1973 | 972 | #258 | — | — |
| 1972 | 980 | #269 | — | — |
| 1971 | 851 | #312 | — | — |
| 1970 | 886 | #313 | — | — |
| 1969 | 725 | #333 | — | — |
| 1968 | 483 | #433 | 6 | #4,023 |
| 1967 | 446 | #448 | — | — |
| 1966 | 262 | #584 | — | — |
| 1965 | 217 | #668 | — | — |
| 1964 | 201 | #734 | — | — |
| 1963 | 195 | #736 | — | — |
| 1962 | 180 | #779 | — | — |
| 1961 | 189 | #757 | — | — |
| 1960 | 150 | #850 | — | — |
| 1959 | 141 | #870 | — | — |
| 1958 | 180 | #744 | — | — |
| 1957 | 122 | #935 | — | — |
| 1956 | 121 | #921 | — | — |
| 1955 | 115 | #920 | — | — |
| 1954 | 148 | #771 | — | — |
| 1953 | 143 | #766 | — | — |
| 1952 | 98 | #944 | — | — |
| 1951 | 93 | #966 | — | — |
| 1950 | 88 | #969 | — | — |
| 1949 | 101 | #875 | — | — |
| 1948 | 85 | #946 | — | — |
| 1947 | 78 | #1,007 | — | — |
| 1946 | 75 | #968 | — | — |
| 1945 | 55 | #1,057 | — | — |
| 1944 | 69 | #933 | — | — |
| 1943 | 61 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1942 | 70 | #944 | — | — |
| 1941 | 65 | #915 | — | — |
| 1940 | 67 | #875 | — | — |
| 1939 | 60 | #916 | — | — |
| 1938 | 61 | #910 | — | — |
| 1937 | 55 | #938 | — | — |
| 1936 | 48 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1935 | 50 | #981 | — | — |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 1933 | 50 | #983 | — | — |
| 1932 | 52 | #988 | — | — |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1930 | 65 | #907 | — | — |
| 1929 | 57 | #958 | — | — |
| 1928 | 67 | #901 | — | — |
| 1927 | 86 | #785 | — | — |
| 1926 | 92 | #755 | — | — |
| 1925 | 83 | #818 | — | — |
| 1924 | 96 | #764 | — | — |
| 1923 | 103 | #720 | — | — |
| 1922 | 115 | #681 | — | — |
| 1921 | 144 | #607 | — | — |
| 1920 | 119 | #664 | — | — |
| 1919 | 118 | #640 | — | — |
| 1918 | 139 | #605 | — | — |
| 1917 | 145 | #564 | — | — |
| 1916 | 160 | #517 | — | — |
| 1915 | 96 | #672 | — | — |
| 1914 | 67 | #709 | — | — |
| 1913 | 60 | #672 | — | — |
| 1912 | 59 | #657 | — | — |
| 1911 | 43 | #664 | — | — |
| 1910 | 45 | #634 | — | — |
| 1909 | 21 | #902 | — | — |
| 1908 | 23 | #824 | — | — |
| 1907 | 21 | #831 | — | — |
| 1906 | 28 | #698 | — | — |
| 1905 | 23 | #774 | — | — |
| 1904 | 24 | #723 | — | — |
| 1903 | 32 | #587 | — | — |
| 1902 | 19 | #815 | — | — |
| 1901 | 19 | #762 | — | — |
| 1900 | 44 | #513 | — | — |
| 1899 | 22 | #676 | — | — |
| 1898 | 19 | #786 | — | — |
| 1897 | 18 | #757 | — | — |
| 1896 | 19 | #748 | — | — |
| 1895 | 26 | #603 | — | — |
| 1894 | 21 | #659 | — | — |
| 1893 | 16 | #761 | — | — |
| 1892 | 19 | #679 | — | — |
| 1891 | 17 | #660 | — | — |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1889 | 16 | #655 | — | — |
| 1888 | 18 | #607 | — | — |
| 1887 | 13 | #655 | — | — |
| 1886 | 14 | #630 | — | — |
| 1885 | 8 | #834 | — | — |
| 1884 | 7 | #910 | — | — |
| 1883 | 9 | #683 | — | — |
| 1882 | 8 | #726 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #667 | — | — |
| 1880 | 12 | #514 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).