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The RACHEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,345 12181 0.001 9
United States (1880 census) 214 18373 0 4
Change since 1880 +2131 +6192 +N/A +5
Other Countries
Australia 6 121863 0 0
United Kingdom 69 25251 0 1
Top States for RACHEL by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 240 9032 0.001 12
Florida 215 10302 0.001 13
Louisiana 197 3458 0.004 44
Ohio 163 9798 0.001 14
Georgia 148 5976 0.002 18
Top States for RACHEL by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Louisiana 197 3458 0.004 44
Alabama 110 5122 0.002 25
Mississippi 68 4823 0.002 24
Arkansas 57 5922 0.002 21
Oklahoma 63 7636 0.002 18

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called RACHEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called RACHEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called RACHEL in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a RACHEL by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of RACHEL

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the RACHEL surname.

Ethnic distribution of RACHEL in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 546 23.28
Mixed Race 69 2.94
White (Hispanic) 53 2.26
Asian/Pacific 21 0.9
Native American/Alaskan 10 0.43
White (Caucasian) 1,646 70.19

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the RACHEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

RACHEL is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of RACHEL in historical publications

RACHEL. See Female Christian Names.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to RACHEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as RACHEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for RACHEL

The following words are slight variants of RACHEL that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.