Rakél
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rakél is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 336(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 3.3K
- FIFinland1 in 5.6K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- 1 in 336 (inferred from the name graph)
1,755 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rakel in FI Finland, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 2 more.
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)Rakel är ett bibliskt namn, hebreiskans Rachel, Rahel som betyder ’tacka (får av honkön)’. Rakel förekommer i Gamla testamentet som den andra av patriarken Jakobs hustrur, mor till Josef och Benjamin. Namnet har tidigare varit vanligare i Finland än i Sverige. En känd fiktiv namnbärare är Rachel i den amerikanska tv-serien Vänner (1994–2004). En känd svensk namnbärare är skådespelerskan Rachel Molin (f. 1973). I den rikssvenska almanackan 26 juni och i den finlandssvenska 17 december.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rakél 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.
1,755 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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
- Is Rakél a male or female name?
- Rakél 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.
- In which country does Rakél have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Rakél, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rakel.
- Where is Rakél most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rakél is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 336 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rakél?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,755 people named Rakél, about 1 in 5.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Rakél compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Rakél is the 337th most common given name of 3,704 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Rakél?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rak%C3%A9lThe 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, “Rakél” — the 337th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.