Meaning not yet researched.
Rachelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #259 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #259 in 1984; #3,375 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rachelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,375 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #259.
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Rachelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 girls in 2025. Peak: #259 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 997 (1971).
In 2025, 46 US girls were named Rachelle, making it the 3,375th most common girls’ name of the year, down 160 places from #3,215 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 50 girls named Rachelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #259, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 997, in 1971. For comparison, it was #2,072 in 2015 and #830 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rachelle in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 33,970 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 9,039 babies named Rachelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 524 US girls were named Rachelle; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 69. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,941 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Rachel (575,748 babies since 1880), Raquel (50,978 babies since 1880), Rachele (3,316 babies since 1880) and Racheal (10,520 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raychelle, Raechelle and Raichelle are summarised on this page.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raychelle (603), Raechelle (589), Raichelle (12), Rauchelle (6).
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 Rachelle 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 | 46 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 2023 | 43 | #3,630 | — | — |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,403 | — | — |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,532 | — | — |
| 2019 | 60 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 2017 | 58 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,755 | — | — |
| 2015 | 95 | #2,072 | — | — |
| 2014 | 89 | #2,150 | — | — |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 2012 | 89 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 2011 | 117 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 2010 | 123 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 2008 | 148 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 2007 | 169 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2006 | 209 | #1,164 | — | — |
| 2005 | 186 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2004 | 220 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 2003 | 265 | #901 | — | — |
| 2002 | 243 | #920 | — | — |
| 2001 | 298 | #793 | — | — |
| 2000 | 283 | #804 | — | — |
| 1999 | 294 | #757 | — | — |
| 1998 | 330 | #688 | — | — |
| 1997 | 338 | #654 | — | — |
| 1996 | 441 | #534 | — | — |
| 1995 | 480 | #511 | — | — |
| 1994 | 614 | #408 | — | — |
| 1993 | 634 | #398 | — | — |
| 1992 | 696 | #369 | — | — |
| 1991 | 775 | #339 | — | — |
| 1990 | 835 | #330 | — | — |
| 1989 | 868 | #300 | — | — |
| 1988 | 906 | #278 | — | — |
| 1987 | 873 | #282 | — | — |
| 1986 | 922 | #270 | 5 | #7,553 |
| 1985 | 925 | #272 | — | — |
| 1984 | 948 | #259 | 5 | #7,062 |
| 1983 | 909 | #264 | — | — |
| 1982 | 885 | #275 | — | — |
| 1981 | 844 | #288 | — | — |
| 1980 | 949 | #265 | — | — |
| 1979 | 843 | #288 | 5 | #6,813 |
| 1978 | 783 | #295 | — | — |
| 1977 | 676 | #338 | — | — |
| 1976 | 770 | #299 | — | — |
| 1975 | 789 | #298 | 5 | #6,098 |
| 1974 | 776 | #304 | 5 | #5,806 |
| 1973 | 882 | #279 | — | — |
| 1972 | 898 | #285 | 7 | #4,334 |
| 1971 | 997 | #285 | — | — |
| 1970 | 989 | #294 | — | — |
| 1969 | 946 | #296 | 5 | #4,864 |
| 1968 | 785 | #312 | — | — |
| 1967 | 598 | #371 | — | — |
| 1966 | 436 | #448 | — | — |
| 1965 | 378 | #486 | — | — |
| 1964 | 413 | #475 | — | — |
| 1963 | 376 | #502 | — | — |
| 1962 | 358 | #516 | — | — |
| 1961 | 376 | #506 | — | — |
| 1960 | 298 | #570 | — | — |
| 1959 | 274 | #601 | — | — |
| 1958 | 228 | #657 | — | — |
| 1957 | 214 | #674 | — | — |
| 1956 | 277 | #565 | — | — |
| 1955 | 181 | #699 | — | — |
| 1954 | 175 | #703 | — | — |
| 1953 | 154 | #735 | — | — |
| 1952 | 125 | #816 | — | — |
| 1951 | 116 | #832 | — | — |
| 1950 | 111 | #830 | — | — |
| 1949 | 101 | #876 | — | — |
| 1948 | 84 | #954 | — | — |
| 1947 | 84 | #973 | — | — |
| 1946 | 65 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1944 | 49 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1941 | 35 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1937 | 17 | #1,982 | — | — |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,376 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,815 | — | — |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,106 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,805 | — | — |
| 1926 | 11 | #3,010 | — | — |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,745 | — | — |
| 1924 | 20 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,349 | — | — |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,485 | — | — |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,466 | — | — |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,530 | — | — |
| 1913 | 10 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,896 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,790 | — | — |
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).