Rachele
Rachele is a girl's name that peaked in 1984, when it was the 1,103rd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2010. About 3,100 Racheles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Rachele
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,316
- Estimated living today
- 3,100
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1984
- Best rank
- 1,103rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1919
How old the living Racheles are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,316 babies given the name since 1919, about 3,100 are alive — 94 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Racheles
- Rachele Guidi (1890–1979)mistress, wife, and widow of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
- Rachele Bruni (born 1990)Italian swimmer
- Rachele Barbieri (born 1997)Italian cyclist
- Rachele Brooke Smith (born 1987)American actress and dancer
People named Rachele with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Rachele is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Rachele is most concentrated in California (2.8×), Michigan (2.7×), New York (2.5×), Ohio (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1984
The most popular girls’ names the year Rachele peaked:
Rachele elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Rachele | 20,964 | — |
| France girls | Rachele +1 spelling | 795 | 637th |
| Switzerland girls | Rachele | 117 | 436th |
| England and Wales girls | Rachele | 21 | 3,247th |
| Scotland girls | Rachele | 3 | 640th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Rachele: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Rachele | 43 | 0.003% | 431st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Rachele | 8 | 0.002% | 359th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Rachele | 66 | 0.101% | 31st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Rachele is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.10% of children were given it – 63 of them.
Rachele: rank by region
In 2024, Rachele was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Rachele | 7 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Rachele against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.