Rachele
Feminine · “ewe”
Rachele is the Italian form, and the final e is not silent. Where English stops at two syllables, Italian gives the name three and sounds every one of them, which turns a familiar name into something that has to be said deliberately.
How old is the name Rachele?
Rachele first appears in US birth records in 1919 — 106 years ago. The typical Rachele alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 3,100 people named Rachele are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Rachele most popular?
Rachele peaked in 1984, reaching #1103 nationally. See the whole 1984 chart.
Where it comes from
From Rachel to Rachele
The story of Rachele
The most quoted thing about her happens long after she dies. The prophet Jeremiah, writing about the deportation of a whole people, pictures Rachel weeping in Ramah for children who are gone and refusing to be comforted — a woman dead for centuries used as the figure for a nation's grief. The image was quoted again in the Gospel of Matthew and has been used ever since in poetry, liturgy and argument. It is a strange kind of afterlife for a name: not a legend attached to the person, but the person turned into a way of speaking about loss.
Meaning
ewe
The Hebrew word is the ordinary term for a female sheep. Names drawn from herd animals are common in the same passages, and they were not thought of as diminishing.
How the name formed
- Rachel
- Rachele
Related forms: Rachele · Rachelle · Raquel · Rachel
Pronouncing Rachele
rah-KEH-leh
Three syllables in Italian with the weight in the middle and the final e fully sounded. American speakers usually give it two, ruh-SHELL, treating it as a spelling of Rachelle.
Nicknames for Rachele
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1919
- Most girls named
- 1984125 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1103reached in 1984
- Change vs 2008
- +16.7%7 in 2010, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Rachele in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Rachele in Italian — same name
- Rachelle in French — spelling variant
- Raquel in Spanish — same name
- Rachel in Hebrew — transliteration
Racheles among us
people named Rachele are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Rachele sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is a standing Italian name rather than an American respelling.
- The name behind it is recognized across Jewish, Christian and Muslim tradition.
- Rae works as a short form and is a complete name in its own right.
- American readers will say it as Rachelle and lose the final syllable entirely.
- Rachel, Rachelle and Rachele are three different names on paper and one in most American mouths.
- The ch is a hard k in Italian and a sh in French, so the name is said two incompatible ways.
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Frequently asked
- How many Racheles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,100 people named Rachele are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Rachele in 2025?
- Rachele is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Rachele with classmates?
- Rachele will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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