Yahel
#4,243 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yahel has been given to 803 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #4,243 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 82 recorded.
Babies named Yahel, 2025
1 in 133,000
Yahel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Yahel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 133,000
- 25 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 68,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,243
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 91,917 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yahel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 91,917 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yahel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yahels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yahel was born before 2013 — so the typical Yahel is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 57.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 782
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 57.2% of all recorded uses (447).
Is Yahel 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
- −725
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +603
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,279
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.5%
- Peak was 2014 (82)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 57.4% average annual change
Spellings of Yahel
Yahel is not the most common spelling — Axel is, with 24.7% against Yahel's 0.27%.
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.
Where Yahel is used
Across 1910–2025, Yahel was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 185,659 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 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. Yahel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Yahel around the world
Where Yahel 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.
- France1997–2025#6,060in 2025
- South Australia2005–2005#643in 2005
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Yahel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Yahel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yahel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.