Raquel Girl
How popular is Raquel?
#1,120 girl name in 2025
209 baby girls were named Raquel in the US in 2025, making it the 1120th most popular girl name.
Raquel popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,120 for girls (▼ 50 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 209 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-45% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #748 in 2015, #932 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1970 (1,470 girls) |
| Highest rank | #215 in 1970 |
| First recorded | 1900 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Raquel counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Raquel family of names ranked #942 for girls in 2025 (#919 the year before), with 225 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Raquel | 209 | 93% |
| Racquel | 5 | 2% |
| Raquelle | 11 | 5% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Raquel is most popular
Babies named Raquel per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maryland: 0.4 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Arizona: 0.3 per 1,000 (48 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.3 per 1,000 (51 girls)
- New York: 0.3 per 1,000 (103 girls)
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (207 girls)
Raquel by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 23 | #1,537 |
| 1910s | 122 | #1,766 |
| 1920s | 497 | #683 |
| 1930s | 815 | #609 |
| 1940s | 857 | #752 |
| 1950s | 1,569 | #684 |
| 1960s | 4,214 | #245 |
| 1970s | 9,592 | #215 |
| 1980s | 9,787 | #228 |
| 1990s | 10,957 | #221 |
| 2000s | 6,872 | #342 |
| 2010s | 3,822 | #604 |
| 2020s | 1,570 | #905 |
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Questions
- Is Raquel a boy or girl name?
- Raquel is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Raquel were girls.
- How popular is the name Raquel?
- 209 baby girls were named Raquel in the US in 2025, making it the 1120th most popular girl name.
- When was Raquel most popular?
- Raquel peaked in 1970, when 1,470 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #215 in 1970.
- How many people are named Raquel?
- 50,978 babies have been named Raquel in the US since 1880. We estimate about 47,676 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 37.
- Where is Raquel most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Raquel was most common in Maryland, at 0.4 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.