Raquel
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: Rachel (biblical character)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/rakel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Raquel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Paraguay it is the 13th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 340(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 386
- BRBrazil1 in 750
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Raquel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #491 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 443 (measured from records)
- 1 in 340 (inferred from the name graph)
282,435 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Spanish: form of Rachel; mother of Joseph in the Bible
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Raquel is read(measured from records)
Raquel is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish63%
Rachel (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Hebreo Rajel, 'cordero, oveja'.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Portuguese16%
Rachel (younger daughter of Laban)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English12%
Spanish: form of Rachel; mother of Joseph in the Bible
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Raquel, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Raquel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #134 | 282,435 | 1 in 750 | 286K | Raquel | 218 |
| ES Spain | #37 | 147,129 | 1 in 340 | 147K | Raquel | 253 |
| PH Philippines | #229 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Raquel | 111 |
| US United States | — | 69,611 | 1 in 4.8K | 69K | Raquel | 443 |
| AR Argentina | #123 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 52 | Raquel | 122 |
| PT Portugal | #55 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 386 | listed | Raquel | 174 |
| PY Paraguay | #13 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Raquel | 50 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 6,296 | 1 in 810 | 6.3K | — | 90 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1,045as Rakel | 1 in 336 | 1K | — | — |
282,435 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Raquel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Cordero de Dios, oveja del Señor
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Spanish form of RACHEL , brought to public attention by the fame and good looks of the film actress Raquel Welch (b. 1940 as Raquel Tejada, in Chicago). Her father was Bolivian, her mother of English parentage.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rachel Carsonb. 1907USnot in their usual nameAmerican marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
- Raquel Welchb. 1940USAmerican actress (1940–2023)
- Rachel Griffithsb. 1968AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress
- Rachel Weiszb. 1970GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1970)
- Rachel Maddowb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican television news host and political commentator
- Rachel McAdamsb. 1978CAnot in their usual nameCanadian actress (born 1978)
- Rachel Bilsonb. 1981USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Meghan Markleb. 1981USnot in their usual namemember of the British royal family and Duchess of Sussex since 2018
- Rachel Bostonb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Raquel Diazb. 1990USAmerican professional wrestler, singer and model
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)
Attested in 89 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 286K | #180 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 282K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 281K | #108 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 147K | #25 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 147K | #56 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 69K | #731 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6.3K | #113 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 5.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 344 | #731 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 209 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 52 | #1,047 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 are other forms of the name Raquel?
- In the etymology graph, Rachel, Rachael and Rachelle are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Raquel come from?
- Spanish: form of Rachel; mother of Joseph in the Bible Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Raquel?
- A machine transcription gives /rakel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Raquel mean?
- In Spanish, Rachel (biblical character)
- In which country does Raquel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 282 thousand people named Raquel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled raquel.
- Where is Raquel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Raquel is densest in Spain — about 1 in 340 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- Is Raquel a male or female name?
- Raquel 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.
- How common is the name Raquel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 282,435 people named Raquel in 2022, about 1 in 750 residents.
- How common is Raquel compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Raquel is the 134th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Raquel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raquelThe 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, “Raquel” — the 134th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.