Rechel
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- RAY-chel
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Rechel is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “ewe”. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Rechel mean?
Hebrew: variant of Rachel
“ewe”
In Genesis, Rachel is the beloved wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin.
Is Rechel a girl's or a boy's name?
Rechel is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Rechel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 9 girls in the US were named Rechel, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2021, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1968.
2025 had fewer girls named Rechel than any year since 2018.
Half of all the girls named Rechel in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,296 girls in the US were given Rechel or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #267, up from #10,104 for this spelling alone.
Rechel in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,540 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,417 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,065 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,290 |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,244 |
Names like Rechel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Itzel, Rochel, Ava, Ezra, Gianna, Josie, Luna, Mia, Brielle, Bristol, Campbell, Jordyn
Other spellings of Rechel
Names related to Rechel
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Jude, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie, Levi
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Rechel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/rechel, updated 20 October 2026.