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Yoel

#1,643 in 2025Boys' name

Yahweh (is) God, through Joel

Yoel has been given to 4,227 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,643 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 180 recorded.

Babies named Yoel, 2025

1 in 32,200

Yoel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yoel: meaning, origin, and history

Yahweh (is) God, through Joel

Hebrew

What Yoel means

Yoel belongs to the name family reached through Yoel → Joel. Its meaning is “Yahweh (is) God”.

Origin, language, and formation

Yoel is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Joel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,227 boys were recorded with the name Yoel between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 180 in 2019; its best national rank was #779 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,244 in 2020 to #1,643 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,325 in 2015 to #1,643 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 Yoel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 32,200
103 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,643
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,311 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yoel 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 22,311 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yoel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yoels were born

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

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,227
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.2% of all recorded uses (1,319).

Is Yoel 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
−141
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−399
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−318
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.2%
Peak was 2019 (180)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#779
1980

Spellings of Yoel

Yoel is not the most common spelling — Joe is, with 39.1% against Yoel's 0.36%.

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 Yoel is used

Across 2016–2025, Yoel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 2,703 boys, against 1 in 9,791 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 50,000).

237 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 2,703
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 5,882
  3. 3Florida1 in 11,111
  4. 4Texas1 in 11,111
  5. 5California1 in 12,500
  6. 6Georgia1 in 12,500
  7. 7Maryland1 in 12,500
  8. 8Washington1 in 14,286

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.

Yoel around the world

Where Yoel 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
    1996–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1969–2025
    #2,284
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Yoel

People whose public names include Yoel, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Yoel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Yoel. Linked forms have their own page here.

JoelYuliiYoelín

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Yoel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,643
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 399
Best rank ever
#779
1980
Peak year
2019
180 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,227
Count in 2025
103

Names similar to Yoel

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

RoelNoelYisroelZoelLoelJoelJhoelRefoelEyoelMichoelDoelCoelXoelYoenisYoexisOelKnoel

Names with a curve like Yoel

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

YaakovAryehJedidiahAmarMikaelGiorgioMikhailAjAvrohomAvrahamAharonShmuel

Sibling names for Yoel

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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