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 [ syll. rac-hae(l), ra-cha-el ] The girl name Rachael is pronounced RAEK-ah-L KEY. Rachael's origin is Hebrew, and its use, English. Rachael is a variant spelling of the English, French, German, and Yiddish Rachel. Rachael is rather popular as a baby girl name. The name jumped in popularity from the 1940s up to the 1980s. At the modest height of its usage in 1987, 0.151% of baby girls were given the name Rachael. It was #98 in rank then. The baby name has seen a decline in popularity since then. In 2008, it ranked at #481 with a usage of 0.032%. Within the family of girl names directly linked to Rachael, the English, French, German, and Yiddish Rachel was the most commonly used. It was 6 times more widely used than Rachael in 2008. Baby names that sound like Rachael include the English Rachal, the English, French, German, and Yiddish Rachel, the English, French, and Italian Rachelle, the English Raechel, the English Raechul, the English Rahshel, the Scandinavian Rakel, the Russian Rakhil, the Portuguese and Spanish Raquel, the English Raschel, the English and Russian Rashel, the English Raychael, the English Raychel, the Yiddish Rayzil, the Yiddish Razil, the Hebrew Razilee, the Yiddish Reisel, the German Resel, the German Resli, and the English Rickel. Details of famous persons named Rachael: KEY: approx pronunciation for Rachael: R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"   |
