In 2025, 76 US boys were named Yariel, making it the 2,005th most common boys’ name of the year, down 9 places from #1,996 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 78 boys named Yariel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,357, reached in 2010. That year also had the most boys given the name: 126. For comparison, it was #1,565 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yariel in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 8 babies. In all, 2,038 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,047 babies named Yariel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 850 US boys were named Yariel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 105. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yariel ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #910 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yarel (901 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yahriel, Yarielle and Yarell are summarised on this page.