Rachël
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rachël is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 493,726 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020, which ranks it 90th. In Gabon it is the 97th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Ῥαχήλ (Rhakhḗl), from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (Rāḥēl).
- USUnited States1 in 674(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 2.6K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 373 (measured from records)
- 1 in 674 (inferred from the name graph)
493,726 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rachel in US United States, BR Brazil, GA Gabon.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Ancient GreekῬαχήλRhakhḗl(measured from records)
- Biblical HebrewרָחֵלRāḥēl(measured from records)
From Ancient Greek Ῥαχήλ (Rhakhḗl), from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (Rāḥēl)
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rachël counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 493,726 | 1 in 674 | 493K | Rachel | 365 |
| BR Brazil | #820 | 11,845 | 1 in 18K | 12K | Rachel | 170 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1,372 | 1 in 3.7K | 1.4K | — | 47 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,132 | 1 in 15K | 1.1K | — | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 983 | 1 in 10K | 983 | — | 15 |
| NO Norway | — | 670 | 1 in 8.2K | 2K | — | 13 |
| GY Guyana | — | 287 | 1 in 2.6K | 287 | — | — |
| GA Gabon | #97 | — | — | — | Rachel | 29 |
493,726 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rachël mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ancient Greek Ῥαχήλ (Rhakhḗl), from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (Rāḥēl) Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- Is Rachël a male or female name?
- Rachël is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Rachël?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 494 thousand people named Rachël, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rachel. After it come Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Rachël most common?
- Rachël is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 674 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rachël?
- In the United States, the national register counted 493,726 people named Rachël in 2020, about 1 in 674 residents.
- How common is Rachël compared with other names?
- In Gabon, Rachël is the 97th most common given name of 2,821 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rach%C3%ABlThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rachël” — ranked 90th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.