Meaning not yet researched.
Raquel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 209 in 2025. Its best rank was #215 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #215 in 1970; #1,123 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Raquel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,123 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #215.
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Raquel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 209 girls in 2025. Peak: #215 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 1,470 (1970).
In 2025, 209 US girls were named Raquel, making it the 1,123rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 49 places from #1,074 in 2024. That is 23 fewer than the 232 girls named Raquel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #215, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,470. For comparison, it was #751 in 2015 and #840 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Raquel in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 6 babies. In all, 50,978 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 11,050 babies named Raquel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,811 US girls were named Raquel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 336. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,690 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Raquel ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #561 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Rachel (575,748 babies since 1880), Rachelle (33,970 babies since 1880), Racquel (4,767 babies since 1880) and Rachele (3,316 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Raquelle, Raquell and Raqual are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Aragonese, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Raquelle (844), Raquell (201), Raqual (59), Raqueal (55), Racquell (35), Raquele (6), Raquael (5), Racqual (5), Rackel (5), Raequel (5).
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 Raquel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 14 | #561 | #920 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #610 | — |
| Texas | 40 | #758 | #777 |
| Arizona | 8 | #802 | #641 |
| Maryland | 6 | #817 | #483 |
| Florida | 19 | #859 | #566 |
| New York | 15 | #1,019 | #484 |
| California | 26 | #1,045 | #525 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,248 | #811 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,269 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,333 | #927 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,368 | #1,238 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,648 | #1,649 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 209 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 2024 | 232 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 2023 | 295 | #906 | — | — |
| 2022 | 261 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2021 | 296 | #909 | — | — |
| 2020 | 277 | #932 | — | — |
| 2019 | 309 | #868 | — | — |
| 2018 | 288 | #931 | — | — |
| 2017 | 308 | #885 | — | — |
| 2016 | 336 | #846 | — | — |
| 2015 | 377 | #751 | — | — |
| 2014 | 404 | #698 | — | — |
| 2013 | 409 | #692 | — | — |
| 2012 | 456 | #627 | — | — |
| 2011 | 449 | #634 | — | — |
| 2010 | 486 | #606 | — | — |
| 2009 | 465 | #640 | — | — |
| 2008 | 538 | #573 | — | — |
| 2007 | 651 | #498 | — | — |
| 2006 | 604 | #506 | — | — |
| 2005 | 648 | #475 | — | — |
| 2004 | 688 | #444 | 5 | #12,791 |
| 2003 | 770 | #396 | — | — |
| 2002 | 756 | #389 | — | — |
| 2001 | 852 | #351 | — | — |
| 2000 | 900 | #342 | — | — |
| 1999 | 970 | #320 | 6 | #9,613 |
| 1998 | 911 | #326 | 7 | #8,252 |
| 1997 | 1,024 | #283 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,042 | #279 | 7 | #7,779 |
| 1995 | 1,074 | #257 | 9 | #6,298 |
| 1994 | 1,104 | #252 | 8 | #6,835 |
| 1993 | 1,223 | #229 | 9 | #6,116 |
| 1992 | 1,148 | #241 | 16 | #3,883 |
| 1991 | 1,272 | #221 | 15 | #3,968 |
| 1990 | 1,189 | #239 | 16 | #3,737 |
| 1989 | 1,168 | #236 | 6 | #7,688 |
| 1988 | 1,156 | #228 | 6 | #7,049 |
| 1987 | 1,170 | #230 | 9 | #4,872 |
| 1986 | 978 | #262 | 14 | #3,401 |
| 1985 | 1,082 | #239 | 14 | #3,348 |
| 1984 | 798 | #296 | 12 | #3,629 |
| 1983 | 823 | #284 | 8 | #4,824 |
| 1982 | 872 | #280 | 11 | #3,896 |
| 1981 | 905 | #274 | 6 | #6,073 |
| 1980 | 835 | #301 | 6 | #6,062 |
| 1979 | 810 | #295 | 8 | #4,749 |
| 1978 | 805 | #289 | 6 | #5,604 |
| 1977 | 795 | #297 | 9 | #4,085 |
| 1976 | 797 | #289 | 5 | #6,275 |
| 1975 | 920 | #262 | 5 | #6,114 |
| 1974 | 862 | #284 | — | — |
| 1973 | 924 | #270 | 10 | #3,397 |
| 1972 | 1,013 | #261 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,196 | #245 | 12 | #2,938 |
| 1970 | 1,470 | #215 | 8 | #3,755 |
| 1969 | 1,208 | #245 | 8 | #3,523 |
| 1968 | 939 | #283 | — | — |
| 1967 | 483 | #425 | — | — |
| 1966 | 270 | #575 | — | — |
| 1965 | 246 | #623 | — | — |
| 1964 | 222 | #690 | — | — |
| 1963 | 221 | #676 | — | — |
| 1962 | 203 | #726 | — | — |
| 1961 | 227 | #695 | 5 | #4,521 |
| 1960 | 195 | #726 | — | — |
| 1959 | 204 | #703 | — | — |
| 1958 | 209 | #684 | — | — |
| 1957 | 166 | #781 | — | — |
| 1956 | 171 | #745 | — | — |
| 1955 | 160 | #749 | — | — |
| 1954 | 155 | #744 | — | — |
| 1953 | 151 | #743 | — | — |
| 1952 | 136 | #764 | — | — |
| 1951 | 107 | #870 | — | — |
| 1950 | 110 | #840 | — | — |
| 1949 | 118 | #802 | — | — |
| 1948 | 110 | #836 | 5 | #4,070 |
| 1947 | 103 | #867 | — | — |
| 1946 | 93 | #861 | — | — |
| 1945 | 67 | #937 | — | — |
| 1944 | 76 | #878 | — | — |
| 1943 | 84 | #854 | — | — |
| 1942 | 50 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1941 | 71 | #868 | — | — |
| 1940 | 85 | #760 | — | — |
| 1939 | 73 | #809 | — | — |
| 1938 | 59 | #928 | — | — |
| 1937 | 66 | #853 | — | — |
| 1936 | 79 | #761 | — | — |
| 1935 | 73 | #796 | — | — |
| 1934 | 86 | #722 | — | — |
| 1933 | 70 | #798 | — | — |
| 1932 | 71 | #814 | — | — |
| 1931 | 118 | #612 | — | — |
| 1930 | 120 | #633 | 5 | #4,439 |
| 1929 | 105 | #689 | — | — |
| 1928 | 90 | #755 | — | — |
| 1927 | 68 | #910 | — | — |
| 1926 | 50 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,404 | — | — |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1920 | 20 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,985 | 5 | #4,667 |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,186 | — | — |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,594 | — | — |
| 1913 | 12 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,887 | — | — |
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).