Yaelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yaelle has been given to 49 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2013, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Yaelle, 2023
1 in 552,000
Yaelle over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Yaelle?
Yaelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 552,000
- 6 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 267,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,940 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yaelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yaelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yaelle was born before 2015 — so the typical Yaelle is around 10 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 65.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 49
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 65.3% of all recorded uses (32).
Is Yaelle 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2013 (7)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.6% average annual change
Spellings of Yaelle
Yaelle is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 25.1% against Yaelle's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Yaelle around the world
Where Yaelle ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2012–2012#5,876in 2012
- France1964–2025#866in 2025
- Canada2009–2024#3,457in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Yaelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Yaelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yaelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.