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Rachael - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Rachael
 
 

 


The girl name Rachael [ syll. rac-hae(l), ra-cha-el ] is pronounced RAEK-ah-L KEY. Rachael's origin is Hebrew, and its use, English. Rachael is a variant form of the English, French, and German 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 2007, it ranked at #393 with a usage of 0.040%. Within the family of girl names directly linked to Rachael, the English, French, and German Rachel was the most commonly used. It was 6 times more widely used than Rachael in 2007.

Baby names that sound like Rachael include the English, French, and German Rachel, the English and Italian Rachelle, the Scandinavian Rakel, the Spanish Raquel, the German Resli, the English Rochelle, the English Racheal, the German Regula, the French Rosalie, the Italian Rosella, the Italian Rossella, the Italian Rosalia, and the Hungarian Rozalia.

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)"


Details of famous persons named Rachael:
Actress Rachael Leigh Cook, born 4 October 1979, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
TV Personality Rachael Ray, born 25 August 1968, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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