In 2025, 189 US girls were named Yaneli, making it the 1,206th most common girls’ name of the year, up 234 places from #1,440 in 2024. That is 35 more than the 154 girls named Yaneli in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,206, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 189. For comparison, it was #1,512 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yaneli in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1981 with 5 babies. In all, 3,911 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,324 babies named Yaneli.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,308 US girls were named Yaneli; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 189. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,504 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yaneli ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #388 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yanely (1,706 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yanelly, Yanelli and Yanelie are summarised on this page.