Achel

Last seen for girls in 1988 at #9,244

Peak · girls
1983 · 7 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
39
since 1980

Achel over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Achel has never cracked the top 8,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983girlsat peak
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First appearance
1980

The first year at least five girls were named Achel! It came in at #10,392, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1980–1982, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Achel is popular in 1983

No state had 5 or more girls named Achel in 1983, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Achel
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1988
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1980
  • Peaked 1983 at #8,047 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1985, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 238,658
  • Highest: 1 in 238,658 girls born in 1983 were named Achel (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 254,408 girls born in 1988 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1980s
  • 100.0% of all girls named Achel (39) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s39#8,047 (1983)#9,031

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Achel in 1983

girls
#8,047
7 births · 1 in 238,658 girls

Top girls' names in 1983

  1. #1Jennifer54,353
  2. #2Jessica45,283
  3. #3Amanda33,749
  4. #4Ashley33,289
  5. #5Sarah27,228
  6. #6Melissa23,475
  7. #7Nicole22,400
  8. #8Stephanie22,329
  9. #9Heather20,747
  10. #10Elizabeth19,842
  11. #8,047Achel7
More about 1983

girls

1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 238,658 of them was named Achel, which outranked 33.4% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Achel
  1. #7,312Yury8
  2. #7,312Zakiyah8
  3. #7,312Zephyr8
  4. #8,047Achel7
  5. #8,047Abelina7
  6. #8,047Abria7
  7. #8,047Adalia7
  8. #9,015Abrielle6
  9. #9,015Adama6
  10. #9,015Adebola6

Tied with 967 names at #8,047; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,772Ciji#7,469 → #697
  2. ↑ 6,751Kirby#7,469 → #718
  3. ↑ 2,656Dwan#3,530 → #874
  4. ↑ 1,888Mallory#2,220 → #332
  5. ↑ 987Marquita#1,099 → #112
Fallers
  1. ↓ 656Syreeta#717 → #1,373
  2. ↓ 572Jenilee#817 → #1,389
  3. ↓ 538Tenika#947 → #1,485
  4. ↓ 396Toccara#541 → #937
  5. ↓ 333Venus#950 → #1,283

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1983 →