Meaning in the sources
Source-reportedMeaning: “sheep”
No etymology text in the cited sources.
Sources for this account (1)
- Wikipedia (it): Rachele (nome)CC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Loading your next page…
Loading your next page…
A name. A world of connections.
“sheep”
/raˈkɛ.le/ · Italian
01 / Meaning & origin
Rachele is a feminine given name documented in Spanish, Italian and Danish. Italian Wikipedia gives the meaning “sheep”.
Separate records with matching spellings: Rachèle (st-fdbf06a8a4)
Meaning: “sheep”
No etymology text in the cited sources.
02 / Across borders
Explore published naming statistics and documented language connections around the world.
The name atlas
12
countries in our sources
Select a country to follow Rachele’s connections around the world.
9 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
Selected country
Published statistics
United States, 2010: 7 girls (rank 13448).
Explore United States4 of 12 countries
03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1900–2025 Spelling: RACHELE
Recorded category girls
Hover to explore a year. Use arrow keys when a chart point has focus.
Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 | 875 | rounded |
| 1901 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1904 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1906 | 5 | 872 | rounded |
| 1907 | 5 | 1,061 | rounded |
| 1908 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1909 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1910 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1911 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1912 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1913 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1914 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1915 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1916 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1917 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1918 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1919 | 5 | 823 | rounded |
| 1920 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1921 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1922 | 5 | 766 | rounded |
| 1923 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1924 | 5 | 718 | rounded |
| 1925 | 5 | 1,300 | rounded |
| 1926 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1927 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1928 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1929 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1930 | 5 | 856 | rounded |
| 1931 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1932 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1933 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1934 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1935 | 5 | 1,135 | rounded |
| 1936 | 5 | 1,208 | rounded |
| 1937 | 5 | 826 | rounded |
| 1938 | 10 | 628 | rounded |
| 1939 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1940 | 5 | 924 | rounded |
| 1941 | 5 | 726 | rounded |
| 1942 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1943 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | 5 | 1,155 | rounded |
| 1946 | 5 | 796 | rounded |
| 1947 | 5 | 1,407 | rounded |
| 1948 | 5 | 1,077 | rounded |
| 1949 | 10 | 659 | rounded |
| 1950 | 5 | 1,065 | rounded |
| 1951 | 5 | 1,050 | rounded |
| 1952 | 5 | 849 | rounded |
| 1953 | 5 | 1,044 | rounded |
| 1954 | 10 | 857 | rounded |
| 1955 | 10 | 796 | rounded |
| 1956 | 5 | 953 | rounded |
| 1957 | 5 | 1,476 | rounded |
| 1958 | 10 | 824 | rounded |
| 1959 | 10 | 989 | rounded |
| 1960 | 5 | 1,158 | rounded |
| 1961 | 10 | 1,064 | rounded |
| 1962 | 10 | 979 | rounded |
| 1963 | 10 | 889 | rounded |
| 1964 | 20 | 619 | rounded |
| 1965 | 15 | 701 | rounded |
| 1966 | 20 | 698 | rounded |
| 1967 | 25 | 620 | rounded |
| 1968 | 20 | 668 | rounded |
| 1969 | 25 | 649 | rounded |
| 1970 | 20 | 707 | rounded |
| 1971 | 30 | 622 | rounded |
| 1972 | 25 | 642 | rounded |
| 1973 | 30 | 637 | rounded |
| 1974 | 20 | 834 | rounded |
| 1975 | 5 | 1,465 | rounded |
| 1976 | 10 | 1,354 | rounded |
| 1977 | 5 | 2,225 | rounded |
| 1978 | 10 | 1,422 | rounded |
| 1979 | 5 | 1,848 | rounded |
| 1980 | 10 | 1,463 | rounded |
| 1981 | 5 | 1,712 | rounded |
| 1982 | 10 | 1,427 | rounded |
| 1983 | 5 | 1,727 | rounded |
| 1984 | 5 | 2,258 | rounded |
| 1985 | 5 | 2,904 | rounded |
| 1986 | 5 | 2,156 | rounded |
| 1987 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1988 | 5 | 2,155 | rounded |
| 1989 | 10 | 1,493 | rounded |
| 1990 | 5 | 1,996 | rounded |
| 1991 | 5 | 2,141 | rounded |
| 1992 | 5 | 3,307 | rounded |
| 1993 | 10 | 1,740 | rounded |
| 1994 | 5 | 2,342 | rounded |
| 1995 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1996 | 5 | 2,876 | rounded |
| 1997 | 5 | 2,832 | rounded |
| 1998 | 5 | 2,600 | rounded |
| 1999 | 5 | 3,277 | rounded |
| 2000 | 5 | 2,679 | rounded |
| 2001 | 5 | 3,036 | rounded |
| 2002 | 10 | 2,357 | rounded |
| 2003 | 10 | 2,110 | rounded |
| 2004 | 5 | 5,920 | rounded |
| 2005 | 5 | 3,704 | rounded |
| 2006 | 5 | 3,680 | rounded |
| 2007 | 10 | 3,027 | rounded |
| 2008 | 5 | 3,547 | rounded |
| 2009 | 10 | 3,098 | rounded |
| 2010 | 5 | 3,603 | rounded |
| 2011 | 5 | 6,411 | rounded |
| 2012 | 5 | 6,932 | rounded |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | 5 | 7,273 | rounded |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “RACHELE” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Rachele— “ewe”
Dante made _l’antica Rachele_, with her beautiful eyes, the type of heavenly contemplation, ever gazing at the mirror that reflected heavenly glory; but her name was not popular, although the Manx princess, otherwise called Affrica, assumed it upon her marriage with Somerled, Lord of the Isles, somewhere about the eleventh century.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part I, Chapter II (Patriarchal Names), Section II (Abi) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
mistress, wife, and widow of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1890–1979)
Italian swimmer
Italian cyclist
American actress and dancer (born 1987)
A little story to keep
Take the story of Rachele with you. Create a personal name passport with its meaning, roots and connections.
06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017
Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013
Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Italy — Istat published top 50 registered newborn names per sex, 1999–2024
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)
Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · OGL-ON-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025
National Records of Scotland (NRS) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)
Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · OGL-UK-3.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
