Meaning not yet researched.
Yahel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,824 in 2008.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,824 in 2008; #4,244 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yahel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,244 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2008, at #1,824.
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Yahel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,824 in 2008 · most boys in one year: 82 (2014).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Yahel, making it the 4,244th most common boys’ name of the year, down 724 places from #3,520 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 33 boys named Yahel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,824, reached in 2008. The most boys given the name in a single year was 82, in 2014. For comparison, it was #2,965 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yahel in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 5 babies. In all, 803 US babies have been given the name, 2.6% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 447 babies named Yahel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 265 US boys were named Yahel; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yael (9,708 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Yahel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 25 | #4,244 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,591 | 33 | #3,520 |
| 2023 | — | — | 21 | #4,881 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #5,009 |
| 2021 | — | — | 14 | #6,325 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,850 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,566 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,168 |
| 2017 | — | — | 40 | #3,003 |
| 2016 | — | — | 23 | #4,462 |
| 2015 | — | — | 40 | #2,965 |
| 2014 | — | — | 82 | #1,827 |
| 2013 | — | — | 52 | #2,422 |
| 2012 | — | — | 78 | #1,879 |
| 2011 | — | — | 31 | #3,509 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,450 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,556 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,405 | 81 | #1,824 |
| 2007 | — | — | 22 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | — | — | 9 | #8,698 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,093 | 13 | #6,207 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #13,156 |
| 2003 | — | — | 10 | #7,227 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,999 | 7 | #9,364 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #12,262 |
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).