Meaning not yet researched.
Rochel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 147 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,466 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Rochel in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,466 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Rochel: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 147 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,466 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 147 (2025).
In 2025, 147 US girls were named Rochel, making it the 1,466th most common girls’ name of the year, up 228 places from #1,694 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 121 girls named Rochel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,466, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 147. For comparison, it was #1,961 in 2015 and #5,175 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rochel in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 9 babies. In all, 4,023 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,021 babies named Rochel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,137 US girls were named Rochel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 147. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,934 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rochel ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #94 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Rochelle (47,395 babies since 1880) and Rochell (1,711 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ruchel 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ruchel (396).
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 Rochel 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 74 | #94 | #186 |
| New York | 55 | #310 | #394 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 147 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 2024 | 121 | #1,694 | — | — |
| 2023 | 117 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 2022 | 106 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 2021 | 109 | #1,846 | — | — |
| 2020 | 95 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 2018 | 102 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 2017 | 96 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 2015 | 103 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 2013 | 104 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 2009 | 95 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 2007 | 91 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 2006 | 88 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 2005 | 77 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,488 | — | — |
| 2002 | 87 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,482 | — | — |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1999 | 67 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1998 | 58 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,305 | — | — |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,315 | — | — |
| 1992 | 60 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 1989 | 43 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1988 | 45 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,428 | — | — |
| 1986 | 51 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,276 | — | — |
| 1981 | 47 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,524 | — | — |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,916 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,590 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,443 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,253 | — | — |
| 1971 | 21 | #3,239 | — | — |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,761 | — | — |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,428 | — | — |
| 1968 | 20 | #2,951 | — | — |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,478 | — | — |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,439 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,574 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,197 | — | — |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,821 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,392 | — | — |
| 1958 | 20 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,123 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,753 | — | — |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,932 | — | — |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,301 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,175 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,131 | — | — |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,955 | — | — |
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).