Rachela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., polnische Form von
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ratʃela/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Rachela is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 118K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 140Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 740Kfew records
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)weibl. Vom., polnische Form von
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rachela 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 212K | — | Rachela | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 136K | 1 | Rachela | 27 |
| PL Poland | 324 | 1 in 118K | 324 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 120 | 1 in 2.8M | 118 | Rachela | 82 |
| DE Germany | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | Rachela | 31 |
| IL Israel | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Rachela | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 513K | — | Rachela | 2 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); the duden-vornamen-2007 register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rachela Fiszelb. 1450PLPolish banker
- Rozalia Zamenhofb. 1839PLnot in their usual name(1839-1892)
- Rachela Brandb. 1865CZHolocaust victim (born 1865)
- Rachela Suckewerb. 1904BYpainter (1904-1943)
- Rachela Pacanowska-Krengelb. 1904PLPolish politician
- Rachela Hutnerb. 1909PLPolish nurse (1909-2008)
- Rachel Takserman-Krozerb. 1921PLnot in their usual nameTheoretical physicist
- Rachela Zelmanowiczb. 1921PLPolish musician and survivor of Nazi persecution
- Juliska Kokab. 1924FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer (1924-2011)
- Rachela SzpanPLPolish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rachela mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., polnische Form von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- How do you pronounce Rachela?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ratʃela/; in Italian /rakɛla/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Rachela a male or female name?
- Rachela is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Poland (dane.gov.pl) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Rachela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 515 people named Rachela in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rachela.
- Where is Rachela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rachela is densest in Poland — about 1 in 118 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rachela?
- In Poland, the national register counted 324 people named Rachela in 2026, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rachelaThe 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, “Rachela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.