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Rae vs Raechelle

American parents have registered 24,420 Raes since 1880, against 589 Raechelles. Rae is still ahead, with 176 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Rae against Raechelle, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Rae Raechelle

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Rae has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1988, when Rae had 121 and Raechelle had 29.

Side by side

  Rae Raechelle
Total US births 24,420589
Most in one year 41229
Babies in 2025 176under 5
Estimated living today 15,000570
Median age today 5739
Peak year 19561988
Best rank 453rd girls3,306th girls
Rank in 2025 1,299thunranked
First recorded 18801962
Girls / boys 23,460 / 960589 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Raes alive today are over 57; half the Raechelles are over 39. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Rae and Raechelle.