Meaning not yet researched.
Rachell: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,289 in 1982.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,289 in 1982; #4,637 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rachell in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,637 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1982, at #1,289.
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Rachell: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,289 in 1982 · most girls in one year: 99 (1982).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Rachell, making it the 4,637th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,137 places from #3,500 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 45 girls named Rachell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,289, reached in 1982. That year also had the most girls given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #4,693 in 2015 and #2,748 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rachell in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 8 babies. In all, 3,976 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 886 babies named Rachell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 250 US girls were named Rachell; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rachel (575,748 babies since 1880), Rachael (82,650 babies since 1880), Rachelle (33,970 babies since 1880) and Racheal (10,520 babies since 1880).
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.
No nicknames listed for Rachell in the open dataset we use.
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 | 30 | #4,637 | — | — |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,500 | — | — |
| 2023 | 37 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,162 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,408 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,864 | — | — |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,873 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,962 | — | — |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,781 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,941 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,693 | — | — |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,999 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,517 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,363 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,545 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,458 | — | — |
| 2006 | 61 | #2,879 | — | — |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 2004 | 48 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 1998 | 43 | #3,001 | — | — |
| 1997 | 56 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 1994 | 64 | #2,139 | — | — |
| 1993 | 65 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 1992 | 84 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1991 | 93 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1990 | 67 | #2,021 | — | — |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1988 | 96 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,563 | — | — |
| 1986 | 94 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1983 | 91 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1982 | 99 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1981 | 83 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1980 | 80 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1979 | 85 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1978 | 82 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1977 | 71 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1976 | 75 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1974 | 73 | #1,411 | — | — |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1972 | 70 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1970 | 64 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1969 | 67 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1968 | 55 | #1,554 | — | — |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,193 | — | — |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,647 | — | — |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,239 | — | — |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,358 | — | — |
| 1959 | 23 | #2,444 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,796 | — | — |
| 1955 | 21 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 1954 | 18 | #2,676 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,163 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,292 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,748 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,845 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,263 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,835 | — | — |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,498 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,888 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,240 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,725 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,329 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,680 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,830 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,513 | — | — |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,841 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,959 | — | — |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,597 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,904 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,366 | — | — |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,416 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,790 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,999 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,370 | — | — |
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).