Girl
Rachelle
As a girl's name, Rachelle traces back to French, where it is understood to mean "French variant of Rachel". 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. Its single strongest year on record was 1971.
FrenchFrench variant of Rachel
EtymologyMeaning "ewe"
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
100
1920s
147
1930s
162
1940s
585
1950s
1,856
1960s
4,968
1970s
8,425
1980s
9,039
1990s
5,435
2000s
2,139
2010s
704
Peaked in the 1980s · 33,560 total U.S. births since 1900