Yael
#1,631 for girls in 2025, 127 births · #817 for boys in 2025, 304 births
Given to boys 53.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 329 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,207since 1984
Yael over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,631 | 127 | #817 | 304 |
| 2024 | #1,591 | 132 | #785 | 320 |
| 2023 | #1,506 | 143 | #775 | 329 |
| 2022 | #1,381 | 166 | #993 | 225 |
| 2021 | #1,532 | 137 | #1,032 | 211 |
| 2020 | #1,545 | 137 | #1,011 | 206 |
| 2019 | #1,763 | 116 | #961 | 222 |
| 2018 | #1,890 | 106 | #933 | 225 |
| 2017 | #1,761 | 119 | #1,023 | 197 |
| 2016 | #1,693 | 126 | #1,080 | 182 |
| 2015 | #1,883 | 108 | #1,092 | 178 |
| 2014 | #1,830 | 111 | #913 | 235 |
| 2013 | #1,953 | 101 | #871 | 243 |
| 2012 | #1,859 | 108 | #880 | 238 |
| 2011 | #1,874 | 107 | #1,054 | 179 |
| 2010 | #1,783 | 115 | #920 | 219 |
| 2009 | #1,947 | 107 | #926 | 223 |
| 2008 | #2,137 | 94 | #912 | 226 |
| 2007 | #2,257 | 86 | #934 | 212 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 | #1,021 | 180 |
| 2005 | #2,359 | 75 | #1,046 | 159 |
| 2004 | #1,999 | 92 | #1,132 | 139 |
| 2003 | #2,167 | 80 | #1,277 | 111 |
| 2002 | #2,028 | 85 | #1,792 | 64 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #1,938 | 87 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #2,182 | 69 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #2,146 | 67 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #1,980 | 71 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #2,241 | 58 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,034 | 67 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,258 | 56 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #2,278 | 52 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #2,051 | 57 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,098 | 52 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,398 | 41 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,866 | 57 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,873 | 57 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,265 | 44 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,218 | 45 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,430 | 38 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,915 | 51 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,832 | 55 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,060 | 42 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,629 | 27 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,398 | 30 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,665 | 27 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yael! It came in at #6,315, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yael is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#378 · 1 in 2,079
- Arizona#412 · 1 in 1,818
- North Carolina#512 · 1 in 2,709
- New Jersey#523 · 1 in 2,840
- Texas#602 · 1 in 3,432
Best ever in a state: #309 in New Mexico, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #378 | 13 | 1 in 2,079 |
| Arizona | #412 | 18 | 1 in 1,818 |
| North Carolina | #512 | 19 | 1 in 2,709 |
| New Jersey | #523 | 14 | 1 in 2,840 |
| Texas | #602 | 51 | 1 in 3,432 |
| Maryland | #634 | 7 | 1 in 3,271 |
| California | #708 | 38 | 1 in 4,618 |
| Illinois | #711 | 12 | 1 in 4,129 |
| New York | #716 | 20 | 1 in 4,221 |
| Georgia | #756 | 12 | 1 in 4,185 |
| Alabama | #765 | 5 | 1 in 4,304 |
| Wisconsin | #785 | 5 | 1 in 4,686 |
| Tennessee | #842 | 7 | 1 in 5,253 |
| Virginia | #875 | 7 | 1 in 5,322 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,094 | 6 | 1 in 8,710 |
| Florida | #1,191 | 10 | 1 in 9,553 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Yael
- 32 spots since 2024 (#785 → #817)
- 194 spots since 2020 (#1,011 → #817)
- 275 spots since 2015 (#1,092 → #817)
- Biggest jump: 218 spots in 2023 (#993 → #775)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 2015 (#913 → #1,092)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2023 at #775 (329 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2007–2010
- Highest: 1 in 5,199 boys born in 2023 were named Yael (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,619 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 40.7% of all boys named Yael (2,118) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 21 | #4,573 (1987) | #5,706 |
| 1990s | 99 | #2,939 (1999) | #4,402 |
| 2000s | 1,374 | #912 (2008) | #1,498 |
| 2010s | 2,118 | #871 (2013) | #973 |
| 2020s | 1,595 | #775 (2023) | #902 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yael in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 12,656 of them was named Yael, which outranked 90.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,622Nell128
- #1,622Sianni128
- #1,622Yvette128
- #1,631Yael127
- #1,631Amia127
- #1,631Arlene127
- #1,631Brisa127
- #1,643Anvi126
- #1,643Kaylin126
- #1,643Kylah126
Tied with 11 names at #1,631; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 5,619 of them was named Yael, which outranked 94.1% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).