Rachael

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rachael".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
82,401
Peak Births
3,028
Peak Year
1987
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
87.9%
Current Percentile
5.5%
Peak Rank
#98
Current Rank
#895
Female statistics
Total Births
181
Peak Births
17
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1968
Peak Percentile
2.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#641
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Rachael

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Rachael. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 54.5% confident that Rachael is pronounced as RAY-chuhl. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-kuhl, at 22.7% confidence.

RA-chuhl (2 syllables)
6.8% confidence
R AE1 CH AH0 L
ruh-KUHL (2 syllables)
6.8% confidence
R AH0 K AH1 L
ruh-CHUHL (2 syllables)
4.5% confidence
R AH0 CH AH1 L
RAY-kehl (2 syllables)
4.5% confidence
R EY1 K EH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Rachael. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Rachael, please vote using the thumbs up button.

RAY-shehl (2 syllables)
10 names 35.4k births
R EY1 SH EH0 L
RAY-CHEHL (2 syllables)
6 names 1.4k births
R EY1 CH EH1 L

About Pronunciation Data

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.