first name
RACHELLE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 30,888 people named Rachelle, 66.8% reported their origin as White, 13.7% as Black and 9% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Rachelle peaked in 1971, when 997 babies got the name.
At least 33,970 babies have been given the name since 1911. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Rachelle by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #532. The largest share of babies named Rachelle, 37%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Rachelle is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Rachelle has been most common in Utah (3.2×), Oregon (2.6×), and Washington (2.1×), and least common in Alabama (0.08×).
30,093 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Rachelle, most common first.
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