Rachelle
#3,342 for girls in 2025, 46 births · Last seen for boys in 1986 at #6,721
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1984 · 948 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 33,933since 1911
Rachelle over time
Rank among girls' names. Rachelle has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,342 | 46 | — | |
| 2024 | #3,176 | 50 | — | |
| 2023 | #3,585 | 43 | — | |
| 2022 | #3,365 | 47 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,435 | 45 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,784 | 60 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,532 | 69 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,873 | 58 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,739 | 63 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,060 | 95 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,139 | 89 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,458 | 73 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,132 | 89 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,748 | 117 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,703 | 123 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,810 | 119 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,554 | 148 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,409 | 169 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,162 | 209 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,222 | 186 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,050 | 220 | — | |
| 2003 | #898 | 265 | — | |
| 2002 | #919 | 243 | — | |
| 2001 | #792 | 298 | — | |
| 2000 | #803 | 283 | — | |
| 1999 | #757 | 294 | — | |
| 1998 | #686 | 330 | — | |
| 1997 | #653 | 338 | — | |
| 1996 | #534 | 441 | — | |
| 1995 | #510 | 480 | — | |
| 1994 | #408 | 614 | — | |
| 1993 | #398 | 634 | — | |
| 1992 | #368 | 696 | — | |
| 1991 | #339 | 775 | — | |
| 1990 | #329 | 835 | — | |
| 1989 | #300 | 868 | — | |
| 1988 | #278 | 906 | — | |
| 1987 | #281 | 873 | — | |
| 1986 | #270 | 922 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #272 | 925 | — | |
| 1984 | #259 | 948 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #264 | 909 | — | |
| 1982 | #275 | 885 | — | |
| 1981 | #288 | 844 | — | |
| 1980 | #265 | 949 | — | |
| 1979 | #288 | 843 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #295 | 783 | — | |
| 1977 | #338 | 676 | — | |
| 1976 | #299 | 770 | — | |
| 1975 | #298 | 789 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #304 | 776 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #279 | 882 | — | |
| 1972 | #285 | 898 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #285 | 997 | — | |
| 1970 | #294 | 989 | — | |
| 1969 | #296 | 946 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #312 | 785 | — | |
| 1967 | #371 | 598 | — | |
| 1966 | #447 | 436 | — | |
| 1965 | #486 | 378 | — | |
| 1964 | #475 | 413 | — | |
| 1963 | #501 | 376 | — | |
| 1962 | #516 | 358 | — | |
| 1961 | #504 | 376 | — | |
| 1960 | #568 | 298 | — | |
| 1959 | #600 | 274 | — | |
| 1958 | #657 | 228 | — | |
| 1957 | #672 | 214 | — | |
| 1956 | #563 | 277 | — | |
| 1955 | #698 | 181 | — | |
| 1954 | #702 | 175 | — | |
| 1953 | #733 | 154 | — | |
| 1952 | #811 | 125 | — | |
| 1951 | #831 | 116 | — | |
| 1950 | #827 | 111 | — | |
| 1949 | #872 | 101 | — | |
| 1948 | #950 | 84 | — | |
| 1947 | #969 | 84 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,050 | 65 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,155 | 46 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,115 | 49 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,113 | 52 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,278 | 39 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,294 | 35 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,347 | 31 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,378 | 29 | — | |
| 1938 | #1,650 | 22 | — | |
| 1937 | #1,914 | 17 | — | |
| 1936 | #1,691 | 20 | — | |
| 1935 | #1,917 | 17 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,275 | 13 | — | |
| 1932 | #2,831 | 10 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,427 | 12 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,690 | 11 | — | |
| 1929 | #2,587 | 12 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,561 | 8 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,872 | 11 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,617 | 13 | — | |
| 1924 | #1,992 | 20 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,264 | 16 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,048 | 19 | — | |
| 1920 | #1,708 | 24 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,921 | 19 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,376 | 14 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,428 | 13 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,368 | 13 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,143 | 14 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,034 | 10 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,634 | 6 | — | |
| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Rachelle! It came in at #2,463, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1911–1912, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
See more about Rachelle
- 166 spots since 2024 (#3,176 → #3,342)
- 156 spots since 2020 (#3,498 → #3,342)
- 1,282 spots since 2015 (#2,060 → #3,342)
- Biggest jump: 135 spots in 1956 (#698 → #563)
- Biggest drop: 152 spots in 2004 (#898 → #1,050)
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 1984 at #259 (948 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 57 yrs · run 1947–2003
- Highest: 1 in 1,653 girls born in 1973 were named Rachelle (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 34,941 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #259 in 1984, was only 1 in 1,776 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 26.6% of all girls named Rachelle (9,029) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 100 | #1,921 (1919) | #2,395 |
| 1920s | 147 | #1,708 (1920) | #2,558 |
| 1930s | 162 | #1,378 (1939) | #2,134 |
| 1940s | 586 | #872 (1949) | #1,114 |
| 1950s | 1,855 | #563 (1956) | #709 |
| 1960s | 4,964 | #296 (1969) | #448 |
| 1970s | 8,403 | #279 (1973) | #297 |
| 1980s | 9,029 | #259 (1984) | #275 |
| 1990s | 5,437 | #329 (1990) | #498 |
| 2000s | 2,140 | #792 (2001) | #1,162 |
| 2010s | 836 | #1,703 (2010) | #2,317 |
| 2020s | 274 | #3,176 (2024) | #3,400 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rachelle in 1974
Top girls' names in 1974
Top boys' names in 1974
More about 1974
girls
1,467,534 girls got a published name in 1974; 1 in 1,891 of them was named Rachelle, which outranked 97.0% of the 10,247 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 314,467 of them was named Rachelle, which outranked 12.9% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 777 names at #5,227; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.