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Yareli

#794 in 2025Girls' name

Elaboration of Yara

Yareli has been given to 10,702 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #794 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 591 recorded.

Babies named Yareli, 2025

1 in 9,670

Yareli over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yareli: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Yara

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yareli means

Yareli is a elaboration of Yara.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yareli is used in Spanish (Latin American, Modern).

Meaning behind the documented name family

Yareli is a elaboration of Yara. Yara has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Yareli is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yara.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,702 girls were recorded with the name Yareli between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 591 in 2009; its best national rank was #511 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #837 in 2020 to #794 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #887 in 2015 to #794 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yareli?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,670
343 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,690
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#794
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,701 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yareli sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,701 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yareli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yarelis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yareli was born before 2011 — so the typical Yareli is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,702
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (4,195).

Is Yareli 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
±0
No change
Rank vs 5 years ago
+43
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+93
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.10×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.0%
Peak was 2009 (591)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#511
2009

Spellings of Yareli

Yareli is not the most common spelling — Nayeli is, with 19.3% against Yareli's 8.4%.

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 Yareli is used

Across 2016–2025, Yareli was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 980 girls, against 1 in 3,869 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

2102 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 980
  2. 2Arizona1 in 2,083
  3. 3Texas1 in 2,083
  4. 4California1 in 2,128
  5. 5Colorado1 in 2,128
  6. 6Illinois1 in 3,125
  7. 7Washington1 in 3,226
  8. 8Oregon1 in 3,448

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Geographically, Yareli is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 93% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Yareli by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#794
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 43
Best rank ever
#511
2009
Peak year
2009
591 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,702
Count in 2025
343

Names similar to Yareli

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

YarelyYaritzaYaretziYaraNayeliYaretzyYaneliAreliAraceliYareniKaeliAngeliAnayeliYarelisMareliMayeliYarelKeliYaremiYariahAnyeliEmeliLoreliYaritzi

Names with a curve like Yareli

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Yareli, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Yareli

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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