Rakel
given name · Finnish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rakel is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Iceland it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Rachel (biblical character).
- ISIceland1 in 268◐
- NONorway1 in 3.3K
- FIFinland1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.9K ●
- Sources
- 61 ●
- 1 in 268 ◐
across 12 countries
1.6K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
Rachel (biblical character).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 1,755△ | 119 rec. | 1 in 5.8K | 1.8K | Rakel | 13 |
| NO Norway | #561 | 1,649△ | 362 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 5.5K | Rakel | 42 |
| IS Iceland | #77 | 1,310△ | 116 rec. | 1 in 268 | 1.3K | Rakel | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,054 | — | 1 in 201K | 1.3K | — | — |
| FI Finland | #596 | 996△ | 27 rec. | 1 in 5.6K | 6.6K | Rakel | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 450 | 465 rec. | 1 in 111K | 450 | Rakel | 16 |
| US United States | — | 391 | 220 rec. | 1 in 851K | 391 | Rakel | 27 |
| DK Denmark | — | 235△ | 55 rec. | 1 in 25K | 235 | Rakel | 39 |
| SY Syria | — | 81 | 87 rec. | — | — | Rakel | 5 |
| GL Greenland | #182 | 66 | 0 rec. | — | 51 | Rakel | 4 |
| KE Kenya | — | 51 | 29 rec. | — | — | Rakel | 10 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 34 | 34 rec. | — | — | Rakel | 7 |
Roughly 1.8K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 5.8K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Finnish21K32%
- Portuguese17K26%
- Spanish7.1K11%
- Icelandic6K9%
- Norwegian Bokmål5.5K8%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Finnish | 20,764 | 32% |
| Portuguese | 17,004 | 26% |
| Spanish | 7,068 | 11% |
| Icelandic | 5,977 | 9% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 5,492 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Rakel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, squeegee (tool used for cleaning glass)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, hasty; reckless; rash
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Scandinavian form of RACHEL .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1946 | 10 |
| 1947 | 6 |
| 1948 | 10 |
| 1949 | 9 |
| 1950 | 8 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 7 |
| 1953 | 7 |
| 1954 | 13 |
| 1955 | 6 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 13 |
| 1961 | 7 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1964 | 12 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1966 | 6 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 6 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 11 |
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1972 | 5 |
| 1973 | 21 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 17 |
| 1976 | 22 |
| 1977 | 12 |
| 1978 | 15 |
| 1979 | 9 |
| 1980 | 12 |
| 1981 | 21 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 10 |
| 1984 | 15 |
| 1985 | 17 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 11 |
| 1988 | 21 |
| 1989 | 13 |
| 1990 | 17 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 22 |
| 1993 | 34 |
| 1994 | 28 |
| 1995 | 21 |
| 1996 | 27 |
| 1997 | 24 |
| 1998 | 23 |
| 1999 | 23 |
| 2000 | 36 |
| 2001 | 27 |
| 2002 | 31 |
| 2003 | 38 |
| 2004 | 35 |
| 2005 | 30 |
| 2006 | 37 |
| 2007 | 44 |
| 2008 | 34 |
| 2009 | 31 |
| 2010 | 34 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 34 |
| 2013 | 44 |
| 2014 | 35 |
| 2015 | 44 |
| 2016 | 29 |
| 2017 | 36 |
| 2018 | 42 |
| 2019 | 44 |
| 2020 | 26 |
| 2021 | 23 |
| 2022 | 32 |
| 2023 | 27 |
| 2024 | 43 |
| 2025 | 46 |
NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 79 years between 1946–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Rakel Laaksob. 1904FIFinnish actress (1904–1985)
- Rakel Seweriinb. 1906NONorwegian politician
- Tulla Blomberg Ransletb. 1928NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian artist, sculptor (born 1928)
- Rakel Liehub. 1939FIFinnish author
- Rakel Dinkb. 1959TRTurkish human rights activist of Armenian ancestry (born 1959)
- Rakel Karvelssonb. 1977USAmerican-Icelandic soccer player
- Rakel Liekkib. 1979FIFinnish journalist, artist, director, and producer
- Rakel Wärmländerb. 1980SESwedish actress
- Rakel Logadóttirb. 1981ISIcelandic footballer
- Rakel Øfsti Nesjeactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 48 sources across 25 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 312 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rakel?
- We estimate roughly 7.9 thousand people bear Rakel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rakel have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.8 thousand people bear Rakel in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled rakel.
- Where is Rakel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rakel is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 268 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Rakel compared with other names?
- In Iceland, Rakel is the 77th most common given name of 4,856 given names recorded there.
- Is Rakel a male or female name?
- Rakel is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Rakel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Rachel (biblical character).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rakel” — the 77th most common given name in Iceland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.