In 2025, 19 US girls were named Yanelis, making it the 6,310th most common girls’ name of the year, down 528 places from #5,782 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 22 girls named Yanelis in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,482, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 46. For comparison, it was #6,228 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yanelis in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 675 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 243 babies named Yanelis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 160 US girls were named Yanelis; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.