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Uel

Boys' name

'God has set' or 'God has placed', through Samuel

Uel has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Uel, 1939

1 in 441,000

Uel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Uel: meaning, origin, and history

'God has set' or 'God has placed', through Samuel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Uel means

Uel belongs to the name family reached through Uel → Samuel. Its meaning is “'God has set' or 'God has placed'”.

Origin, language, and formation

Uel is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Samuel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Uel is pronounced /ˈjuːəl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 75 boys were recorded with the name Uel between 1915 and 1939. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1918; its best national rank was #3,350 in 1918.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Uel?

Uel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1939, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1939
1 in 441,000
5 of 2,203,433 births
Among boys only
1 in 221,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1939
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
305,462 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Uel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1939 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 305,462 children born in 1939 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Uel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Uels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Uel was born before 1920 — so the typical Uel is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
45.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 45.3% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Uel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (8)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,350
1918

Where Uel is used

Across 1910–2025, Uel was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 775,065 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Uel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Uel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,350
1918
Peak year
1918
8 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1939
All-time count
75
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Uel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Uel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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