Yule
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yule has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2014. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2014, with 5 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 50% boys, 50% girls all-time.
Babies named Yule, 2014
1 in 741,000
Yule 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Yule over time
In 2021, Yule went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Yule?
Yule had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 741,000
- 5 of 3,706,812 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 384,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,874 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yule sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yule. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yules were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yule was born before 2014 — so the typical Yule is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Yule 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2014 (5)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Yule
Yule is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 33.4% against Yule's <0.01%.
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.
Yule around the world
Where Yule 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.
- South Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Yule by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Yule
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yule
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.