Raquelle
Feminine · “Hebrew rachel”
Rachel means a ewe. Her sister Leah may mean a wild cow. Both names are livestock, which is not an insult in a herding society: the text introduces Rachel in Genesis 29 as a shepherd bringing her father's sheep to the well, and the naming and the occupation belong to the same world.
How old is the name Raquelle?
Raquelle first appears in US birth records in 1967 — 58 years ago. The typical Raquelle alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 800 people named Raquelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Raquelle most popular?
Raquelle peaked in 1994, reaching #3372 nationally. Today it ranks #8860, 5,488 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.
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Where it comes from
From rachel to Raquelle
The story of Raquelle
Animal names in a pastoral society are descriptive rather than derogatory, and the Hebrew Bible is full of them: Deborah is a bee, Jonah a dove, Caleb a dog, Zibiah a gazelle, Oreb a raven, Shaphan a rock badger. Several are clan names as much as personal ones, and the pattern is common across the ancient Near East. Rachel's name and her introduction fit together: she appears at a well with sheep, Jacob rolls the stone away and waters them, and the meeting is the beginning of the story. What the narrative then does with her is harder. She is loved and infertile for years while her sister bears six sons, she dies in childbirth on the road to Bethlehem, and Jeremiah later uses her as the image of a mother weeping for exiled children.
Meaning
Hebrew rachel, a ewe
From Hebrew rachel, a female sheep. Rachel is the younger daughter of Laban and the favored wife of Jacob, and is introduced in Genesis as a shepherd. Her sister Leah's name is disputed and may derive from an Akkadian word for a wild cow, which would make the pair a matched set of livestock terms. Raquel is the Spanish form and Raquelle a French-influenced spelling. It peaks in the American data in 1994.
How the name formed
- rachel
- Raquel
- Raquelle
Related forms: Raquel · Rachel · Raquel
Pronouncing Raquelle
rah-KEL
Two syllables, stress on the second. The Spanish Raquel is the same; the qu spells a hard k, which is the Spanish rule before e. English speakers sometimes say rah-KELL-uh, sounding the final e.
Nicknames for Raquelle
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
- 1967
- Most girls named
- 199433 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3372reached in 1994
- Change vs 2024
- +57.1%11 in 2025, from 7
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.
Raquelle in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Raquel in Spanish — spelling variant
- Rachel in English — same name
- Raquel in Portuguese — same name
Raquelles among us
people named Raquelle are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 146,115 born in 2025 was named Raquelle
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ludivina test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Raquelle's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ludivina climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ludivina's path sketches the road Raquelle is walking now.
Raquelle sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Raquelle beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Raquelle in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The Hebrew meaning is settled and the biblical figure is major.
- Rae is a clean unisex short form.
- The name is recognized across Spanish, Portuguese and English.
- Raquel is the standard spelling and much more common.
- The final e is silent and will be sounded by some readers.
- Rachel is the form English speakers will assume.
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Frequently asked
- How many Raquelles are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Raquelle are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Raquelle in 2025?
- Raquelle ranks #8860 among US girl names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Raquelle?
- About 1 in every 146,115 US girls born in 2025 was named Raquelle — 11 in all.
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- Raquelle will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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