In 2025, 13 US boys were named Yarel, making it the 6,786th most common boys’ name of the year, up 4,104 places from #10,890 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 7 boys named Yarel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,495, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 31. For comparison, it was #6,306 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Yarel, making it the 11,888th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,308 places from #7,580 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 15 girls named Yarel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,741, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 126. For comparison, it was #6,969 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yarel in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 12 babies. In all, 901 US babies have been given the name, 69% of them girls and 31% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 558 babies named Yarel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US boys were named Yarel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yariel (2,038 babies since 1880).