Raquel

girls:

50.2k births since 1900

#574 (90th percentile)

boys:

281 births since 1918

#4305 (6th percentile)

overall:

50.5k births since 1900

#1070 (86th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1900 2023 19002023

Key Statistics

Total Births
50,248
Peak Births
1,470
Peak Year
1991
First Recorded
1900
Peak Percentile
74.9%
Current Percentile
29.8%
Peak Rank
#213
Current Rank
#665
Female statistics
Total Births
281
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
1990
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
1.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#525
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Raquel

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Raquel. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 91.1% confident that Raquel is pronounced as ruh-KEHL. The next most likely pronunciation is rah-KEHL, at 8.9% confidence.

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91.1%
rah-KEHL (2 syllables)
8.9% confidence
R AA0 K EH1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

ruh-KUHL (2 syllables)
1 name 82.6k births
R AH0 K AH1 L

Names with this pronunciation:

ra-KEHL (2 syllables)
5 names 5.7k births
R AE0 K 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 AH0 K EH1 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.