girls:
82.4k births since 1880
#427 (93rd percentile)
boys:
181 births since 1968
#4405 (4th percentile)
overall:
82.6k births since 1880
#782 (90th percentile)
The name Rachael is the #782 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 82,582 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #427 (92.5% percentile) for all time with 82,401 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,405 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 181 births since 1968.
Rachael has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1968 for boys).
The name Rachael has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Rachael reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 87.9% percentile (ranked #98) with 1,512 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 1,512 births per million (ranked 87.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Rachael ranks #895 for girls (5.5% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 2.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Rachael reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #742) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rachael".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Rachael", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 18 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Rachel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Rachel..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Rachael. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.5% confident that Rachael is pronounced as RAY-chuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-kuhl, at 22.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like R EY1 CH AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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