What is the meaning of the name Rachel?

The meaning of the name Rachel is "ewe, female sheep". The origin of the name is "Hebrew". The name Rachel is mostly used as a girls name.

Right pronunciation of Rachel

\r(a)-chel\

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Rachel is a very popular first name for girls (#79) and also really popular as a last name (#12538). Users of our site ranked the name with a 0.0 (0 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this girls name above or write a comment on the name Rachel.

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The year 1991 was for Rachel a very good year. In that year there were 18005 births with the name Rachel. Find out if Rachel is in the top 100 girls names 1991 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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