Rachel
114
Babies in 2024
-45%
10-year change
1997
Peak · 2.12k
+18%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Rachel
Rachel peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (2,120 babies in 1997) and has remained in active use — 114 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Rachel reached its peak in 1997, when 2,120 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #28 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 114 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 19,034 girls have been officially registered with the name Rachel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,609 girls were registered with the name, starting from 209 in 2014 and ending at 114 in 2024.