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)
The name Raquel is the #1,070 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 50,529 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 86.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #574 (90.0% percentile) for all time with 50,248 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,305 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 281 births since 1918.
Raquel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1918 for boys). Birth data for Raquel is available in 118 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (118 years for girls and 33 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Raquel has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Raquel reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 74.9% percentile (ranked #214) with 626 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 802 births per million (ranked 72.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1991, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Raquel ranks #665 for girls (29.8% percentile) with 168 births per million, which is 20.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Raquel reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #758) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% 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 "Raquel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Raquel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 91.1% confident that Raquel is pronounced as ruh-KEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rah-KEHL, at 8.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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