Meaning not yet researched.
Yael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 304 in 2025. Its best rank was #776 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #776 in 2023; #818 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Yael in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#818 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #776.
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Yael: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 304 boys in 2025. Peak: #776 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 329 (2023).
In 2025, 304 US boys were named Yael, making it the 818th most common boys’ name of the year, down 29 places from #789 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 320 boys named Yael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #776, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 329. For comparison, it was #1,095 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 127 US girls were named Yael, making it the 1,642nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 45 places from #1,597 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 132 girls named Yael in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,386, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 166. For comparison, it was #1,893 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yael in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 9,708 US babies have been given the name, 46% of them girls and 54% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,235 babies named Yael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,421 US boys were named Yael; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 329. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,619 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yael ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #408 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jael (7,948 babies since 1880) and Yahel (803 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yale, Yaelle and Yhael are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yale (1,416), Yaelle (49), Yhael (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Yael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 13 | #408 | — |
| Arizona | 18 | #431 | #877 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #537 | #1,301 |
| New Jersey | 14 | #541 | — |
| Texas | 51 | #610 | #745 |
| Maryland | 7 | #698 | — |
| California | 38 | #718 | #668 |
| New York | 20 | #744 | #1,815 |
| Illinois | 12 | #747 | #1,523 |
| Georgia | 12 | #791 | #1,207 |
| Alabama | 5 | #876 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #883 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #921 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #969 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,221 | — |
| Florida | 10 | #1,252 | #1,935 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,642 | 304 | #818 |
| 2024 | 132 | #1,597 | 320 | #789 |
| 2023 | 143 | #1,512 | 329 | #776 |
| 2022 | 166 | #1,386 | 225 | #994 |
| 2021 | 137 | #1,543 | 211 | #1,033 |
| 2020 | 137 | #1,551 | 206 | #1,012 |
| 2019 | 116 | #1,771 | 222 | #967 |
| 2018 | 106 | #1,898 | 225 | #935 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,767 | 197 | #1,024 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,703 | 182 | #1,086 |
| 2015 | 108 | #1,893 | 178 | #1,095 |
| 2014 | 111 | #1,837 | 235 | #914 |
| 2013 | 101 | #1,966 | 243 | #871 |
| 2012 | 108 | #1,873 | 238 | #883 |
| 2011 | 107 | #1,885 | 179 | #1,055 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,793 | 219 | #924 |
| 2009 | 107 | #1,955 | 223 | #929 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,156 | 226 | #913 |
| 2007 | 86 | #2,275 | 212 | #939 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,183 | 180 | #1,024 |
| 2005 | 75 | #2,378 | 159 | #1,047 |
| 2004 | 92 | #2,019 | 139 | #1,141 |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,186 | 111 | #1,281 |
| 2002 | 85 | #2,045 | 64 | #1,816 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,956 | 32 | #2,927 |
| 2000 | 87 | #1,950 | 28 | #3,147 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,203 | 28 | #3,028 |
| 1998 | 67 | #2,162 | 25 | #3,188 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,226 | 15 | #4,447 |
| 1996 | 71 | #1,993 | 13 | #4,870 |
| 1995 | 48 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,751 | 11 | #5,441 |
| 1993 | 58 | #2,266 | — | — |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,189 | — | — |
| 1991 | 67 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1990 | 56 | #2,288 | 7 | #7,164 |
| 1989 | 52 | #2,302 | 7 | #6,918 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1987 | 52 | #2,127 | 9 | #4,952 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 1984 | 57 | #1,885 | 5 | #7,325 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1982 | 57 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1981 | 44 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 1980 | 45 | #2,245 | — | — |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1977 | 55 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1976 | 42 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 1973 | 27 | #2,687 | — | — |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,450 | — | — |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1970 | 22 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,452 | — | — |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,886 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,267 | — | — |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,491 | — | — |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,533 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,258 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,300 | — | — |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,377 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #5,028 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #7,018 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,613 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).