Entry № 8411 · Hebrew origin

Rachel Rachel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAY-chul /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Ewe (biblical Rachel, Jacob's wife; Rachel Carson, Rachel Maddow)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "ewe (biblical rachel, jacob's wife; rachel carson, rachel maddow)".

Rachel is from the Hebrew Rachel ("ewe"). Died giving birth to Benjamin on the road to Bethlehem; her tomb (Kever Rachel) remains a major Jewish pilgrimage site.

Ewe (biblical Rachel, Jacob's wife; Rachel Carson, Rachel Maddow) — a Hebrew name.

The name in its native script.

רָחֵל
Transliteration
Rachel
Pronunciation
/ ˈreɪ.tʃəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rachel stands.

Rachel does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Rachels before her.

Real people
Rachel Carson
American marine biologist.
1907 – 1964
Rachel Maddow
American news anchor.
born 1973
Rachel Whiteread
British Turner Prize sculptor.
born 1963
In fiction
Rachel Green
Friends.
1994

Names connected to Rachel.

The number behind Rachel.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rachel reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.