Yoel
#1,634 for boys in 2025, 103 births
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 127 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,227since 1970
Yoel over time
Rank among boys' names. Yoel has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,634 | 103 |
| 2024 | #1,494 | 120 |
| 2023 | #1,244 | 156 |
| 2022 | #1,388 | 134 |
| 2021 | #1,325 | 140 |
| 2020 | #1,240 | 150 |
| 2019 | #1,100 | 180 |
| 2018 | #1,291 | 142 |
| 2017 | #1,245 | 147 |
| 2016 | #1,194 | 159 |
| 2015 | #1,317 | 134 |
| 2014 | #1,402 | 120 |
| 2013 | #1,492 | 109 |
| 2012 | #1,551 | 102 |
| 2011 | #1,484 | 109 |
| 2010 | #1,415 | 117 |
| 2009 | #1,654 | 95 |
| 2008 | #1,594 | 99 |
| 2007 | #1,638 | 94 |
| 2006 | #1,654 | 86 |
| 2005 | #1,752 | 75 |
| 2004 | #1,720 | 74 |
| 2003 | #1,936 | 60 |
| 2002 | #1,529 | 81 |
| 2001 | #1,841 | 60 |
| 2000 | #1,725 | 65 |
| 1999 | #1,824 | 54 |
| 1998 | #1,931 | 50 |
| 1997 | #2,060 | 43 |
| 1996 | #1,958 | 45 |
| 1995 | #1,758 | 50 |
| 1994 | #1,581 | 58 |
| 1993 | #1,321 | 74 |
| 1992 | #1,981 | 40 |
| 1991 | #2,190 | 33 |
| 1990 | #1,755 | 45 |
| 1989 | #1,452 | 57 |
| 1988 | #1,467 | 52 |
| 1987 | #1,612 | 43 |
| 1986 | #1,457 | 47 |
| 1985 | #1,333 | 52 |
| 1984 | #1,198 | 58 |
| 1983 | #1,035 | 73 |
| 1982 | #950 | 89 |
| 1981 | #894 | 99 |
| 1980 | #777 | 127 |
| 1979 | #1,023 | 75 |
| 1978 | #3,215 | 12 |
| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #4,986 | 5 |
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| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yoel! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yoel is popular in 2006
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#638 · 1 in 5,216
- Florida#851 · 1 in 7,950
- New Jersey#963 · 1 in 9,411
- Georgia#1,238 · 1 in 12,485
- Illinois#1,299 · 1 in 15,397
Best ever in a state: #141 in New York, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #638 | 21 | 1 in 5,216 |
| Florida | #851 | 13 | 1 in 7,950 |
| New Jersey | #963 | 5 | 1 in 9,411 |
| Georgia | #1,238 | 5 | 1 in 12,485 |
| Illinois | #1,299 | 5 | 1 in 15,397 |
| California | #1,334 | 13 | 1 in 20,024 |
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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 Yoel
- 140 spots since 2024 (#1,494 → #1,634)
- 394 spots since 2020 (#1,240 → #1,634)
- 317 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #1,634)
- Biggest jump: 246 spots in 1980 (#1,023 → #777)
- Biggest drop: 117 spots in 1981 (#777 → #894)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1980 at #777 (127 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1980–1982
- Highest: 1 in 9,968 boys born in 2019 were named Yoel (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 16,583 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #777 in 1980, was only 1 in 14,047 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.2% of all boys named Yoel (1,319) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 127 | #1,023 (1979) | #3,832 |
| 1980s | 697 | #777 (1980) | #1,218 |
| 1990s | 492 | #1,321 (1993) | #1,836 |
| 2000s | 789 | #1,529 (2002) | #1,704 |
| 2010s | 1,319 | #1,100 (2019) | #1,349 |
| 2020s | 803 | #1,240 (2020) | #1,388 |
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.
Yoel in 2006
Top boys' names in 2006
More about 2006
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2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 23,899 of them was named Yoel, which outranked 88.2% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
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- #1,654Yoel86
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- #1,669Akeem85
- #1,669Bill85
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Tied with 14 names at #1,654; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.