Raquel

Where Raquel comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Raquel, from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (rāḥēl). Doublet of Rachel.
— Wiktionary's entry for Raquel
  • Hebrew
  • 2 syllables
Raquel through the years
  1. 1900
    First appearance
    #1,723 among girls with 6 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Raquel Welch born
    American actress
  3. 1970
    Peak, #215
    1,470 babies named Raquel, the most in any year.
  4. 1982
    Raquel del Rosario born
    Spanish singer
  5. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #444.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Raquel Welch · American actress, 1940–2023
  • Raquel del Rosario · Spanish singer, born 1982
  • Raquel Castro · American actress and singer, born 1994
  • Raquel Zimmermann · Brazilian model, born 1983
  • Raquel Cassidy · British actress, born 1969

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.