Entry № 8539 · Spanish origin

Raquel Raquel — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ rah-KEL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"Ewe (Raquel Welch, sex symbol; Raquel Murillo Money Heist)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "ewe (raquel welch, sex symbol; raquel murillo money heist)".

Raquel is the Spanish and Portuguese form of Rachel — from the Hebrew Rachel ("ewe"). Raquel Bigorra (born 1972) — Cuban TV personality. Raquel Atawo — American doubles tennis player.

Ewe (Raquel Welch, sex symbol; Raquel Murillo Money Heist) — a Spanish name.

The name in its native script.

Raquel
Transliteration
Raquel
Pronunciation
/ rəˈkɛl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Raquel stands.

Raquel 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.

Raquels before her.

Real people
Raquel Welch
American actress.
1940 – 2023
Raquel Bigorra
Cuban TV personality.
born 1972
Raquel Pelissier
Haitian Miss Universe runner-up.
born 1985
In fiction
Raquel Murillo
Money Heist.
2017

Names connected to Raquel.

The number behind Raquel.

2

The Peacemaker

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