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Yariel

#2,005 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Jeriel

Yariel has been given to 2,038 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #2,005 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 126 recorded.

Babies named Yariel, 2025

1 in 43,600

Yariel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yariel: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jeriel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yariel means

Yariel is a variant of Jeriel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yariel → Jeriel. The family’s meaning is “taught by God”, recorded in the naming reference for Jeriel.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jeriel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,028 boys were recorded with the name Yariel between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 126 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,357 in 2010.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,871 in 2020 to #2,005 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,565 in 2015 to #2,005 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Yariel between 2009 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2009; its best national rank was #19,719 in 2010.

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.

How common is Yariel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 43,600
76 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 22,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,005
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
30,237 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yariel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 30,237 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yariel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yariels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yariel was born before 2014 — so the typical Yariel is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,028
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (1,042).

Is Yariel 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
−9
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−134
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−440
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.73×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.3%
Peak was 2010 (126)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,357
2010

Spellings of Yariel

Yariel is not the most common spelling — Daniel is, with 75.2% against Yariel's 0.08%.

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 Yariel is used

Across 2016–2025, Yariel was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 17,335 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 5,263
  2. 2New York1 in 8,333
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 9,091
  4. 4Florida1 in 11,111
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 12,500
  6. 6Texas1 in 16,667
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 25,000

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.

Yariel around the world

Where Yariel 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.

  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yariel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,005
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 134
Best rank ever
#1,357
2010
Peak year
2010
126 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,028
Count in 2025
76

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#19,719
2010
Peak year
2009
5 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yariel

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

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Names with a curve like Yariel

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

MaddixAnshAmauriDieselKaidynDraydenAtreyuAaryanTaydenJayvenMaksimFischer

Sibling names for Yariel

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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