Rechel
- #10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 19 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 257since 1968
Rechel over time
Rank among girls' names. Rechel has never cracked the top 6,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 |
| 2024 | #8,946 | 11 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 |
| 2022 | #8,542 | 12 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 |
| 2004 | — | |
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| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 |
| 2001 | — | |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
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| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
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| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Rechel! It came in at #6,246, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Rechel is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
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- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,418 · 1 in 8,703
Best ever in a state: #1,164 in New Jersey, 2010.
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| New York | #1,418 | 9 | 1 in 8,703 |
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See more about Rechel
- 1,161 spots since 2024 (#8,946 → #10,107)
- 1,701 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #10,107)
- 4,375 spots since 2015 (#14,482 → #10,107)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 2021 at #6,174 (19 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 86,361 girls born in 2021 were named Rechel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 178,585 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.4% of all girls named Rechel (73) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,246 |
| 1970s | 15 | #8,292 (1972) | #9,004 |
| 1980s | 24 | #8,224 (1982) | #9,375 |
| 1990s | 32 | #8,812 (1996) | #11,676 |
| 2000s | 50 | #8,529 (2008) | #13,878 |
| 2010s | 57 | #8,299 (2017) | #11,337 |
| 2020s | 73 | #6,174 (2021) | #8,632 |
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.
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