Meaning not yet researched.
Yandel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #530 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #530 in 2009; #2,795 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yandel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,795 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #530.
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Yandel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 boys in 2025. Peak: #530 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 511 (2009).
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Yandel, making it the 2,795th most common boys’ name of the year, up 535 places from #3,330 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 36 boys named Yandel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #530, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 511. For comparison, it was #1,387 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yandel in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 6 babies. In all, 3,748 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,866 babies named Yandel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 583 US boys were named Yandel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 114. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yandel ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #909 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Yandiel and Yandell are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yandiel (299), Yandell (151).
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 Yandel 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #909 | #1,105 |
| New York | 6 | #1,752 | #892 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,556 | #940 |
| California | 5 | #2,802 | #1,751 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 46 | #2,795 |
| 2024 | — | — | 36 | #3,330 |
| 2023 | — | — | 55 | #2,479 |
| 2022 | — | — | 36 | #3,335 |
| 2021 | — | — | 46 | #2,773 |
| 2020 | — | — | 45 | #2,756 |
| 2019 | — | — | 59 | #2,337 |
| 2018 | — | — | 65 | #2,165 |
| 2017 | — | — | 81 | #1,843 |
| 2016 | — | — | 114 | #1,499 |
| 2015 | — | — | 125 | #1,387 |
| 2014 | — | — | 174 | #1,101 |
| 2013 | — | — | 155 | #1,168 |
| 2012 | — | — | 205 | #978 |
| 2011 | — | — | 280 | #794 |
| 2010 | — | — | 360 | #666 |
| 2009 | — | — | 511 | #530 |
| 2008 | — | — | 461 | #564 |
| 2007 | — | — | 306 | #740 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,386 | 336 | #677 |
| 2005 | — | — | 123 | #1,271 |
| 2004 | — | — | 78 | #1,669 |
| 2003 | — | — | 21 | #4,108 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #5,123 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,518 |
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).