Yul
#13,861 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yul has been given to 674 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #13,861 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Yul, 2025
1 in 663,000
Yul 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Yul?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,861
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yul 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yuls were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yul was born before 1971 — so the typical Yul is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 32.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 674
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 32.5% of all recorded uses (219).
Is Yul 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,336
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,324
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.6%
- Peak was 1960 (32)
- Years since peak
- 65
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 41.6% average annual change
Where Yul is used
Across 1910–2025, Yul was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,050,359 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2Arkansas1 in —
- 3California1 in —
- 4Louisiana1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
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. Yul has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Yul around the world
Where Yul 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 & Wales2000–2000#3,036in 2000
- France2004–2015#6,646in 2015
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Yul by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Yul
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yul
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.