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Yechiel

#1,917 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Jehiel

Yechiel has been given to 1,971 babies in the U.S. since 1959. In 2025 it ranked #1,917 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 82 recorded.

Babies named Yechiel, 2025

1 in 40,400

Yechiel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yechiel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Jehiel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yechiel means

Yechiel is a form of Jehiel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yechiel → Jehiel. The family’s meaning is “God will live”, recorded in the naming reference for Jehiel.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jehiel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,971 boys were recorded with the name Yechiel between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 82 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,903 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,463 in 2020 to #1,917 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,109 in 2015 to #1,917 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.

How common is Yechiel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,400
82 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 20,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,917
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,024 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yechiel 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 28,024 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yechiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yechiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yechiel was born before 2010 — so the typical Yechiel is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,971
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2010s — 31.4% of all recorded uses (619).

Is Yechiel 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
+39
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+546
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+192
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (82)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,903
2014

Spellings of Yechiel

Yechiel is the most-used spelling, taking 65.5% of the 3,011 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Yechiel is used

Across 1910–2025, Yechiel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 11,190 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 16,667).

610 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 16,667

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. Yechiel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yechiel around the world

Where Yechiel 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.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yechiel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,917
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 546
Best rank ever
#1,903
2014
Peak year
2025
82 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,971
Count in 2025
82

Names similar to Yechiel

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

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Sibling names for Yechiel

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