Girl
Rachael
Rachael means "Hebrew, ewe (female sheep)" and comes from Hebrew, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It had its heyday in the 1980s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 1990 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.
EtymologyVariant of Rachel
HebrewHebrew – "ewe" (female sheep)
Also spelled: Rachel
Births by decade
1900s
254
1910s
933
1920s
962
1930s
522
1940s
725
1950s
1,250
1960s
3,054
1970s
12,764
1980s
25,784
1990s
24,525
2000s
9,147
2010s
1,940
Peaked in the 1980s · 81,860 total U.S. births since 1900