Yamal
#10,631 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yamal has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #10,631 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Yamal, 2025
1 in 474,000
Yamal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Yamal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,631
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yamal 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yamal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yamals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yamal was born before 2025 — so the typical Yamal is around 0 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 58.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 58.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 12
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Yamal 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
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (7)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Yamal
Yamal is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 21.3% against Yamal's <0.01%.
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.
Yamal around the world
Where Yamal 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.
- France2024–2025#1,704in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Yamal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Yamal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yamal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.