Yandel
#2,794 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yandel has been given to 3,748 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,794 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 511 recorded.
Babies named Yandel, 2025
1 in 72,100
Yandel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Yandel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 72,100
- 46 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 37,100
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #2,794
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 49,955 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yandel 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 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yandel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yandels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yandel was born before 2010 — so the typical Yandel is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 49.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,739
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (1,857).
Is Yandel 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
- +534
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −39
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,407
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.37×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 9.0%
- Peak was 2009 (511)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.8% average annual change
Spellings of Yandel
Yandel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 75.4% against Yandel's 0.14%.
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 Yandel is used
Across 2016–2025, Yandel was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 28,584 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Massachusetts1 in 14,286
- 2New York1 in 14,286
- 3Colorado1 in 25,000
- 4Texas1 in 25,000
- 5California1 in 33,333
- 6Florida1 in 50,000
- 7New Jersey1 in 50,000
- 8Illinois1 in 100,000
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.
Yandel around the world
Where Yandel 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.
- France2012–2021#6,436in 2021
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Yandel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Yandel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Yandel
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yandel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Yandel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.