Meaning not yet researched.
Yoel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 103 in 2025. Its best rank was #779 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #779 in 1980; #1,643 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yoel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,643 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #779.
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Yoel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 103 boys in 2025. Peak: #779 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 180 (2019).
In 2025, 103 US boys were named Yoel, making it the 1,643rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 141 places from #1,502 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 120 boys named Yoel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #779, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 180, in 2019. For comparison, it was #1,325 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yoel in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 4,227 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,319 babies named Yoel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,431 US boys were named Yoel; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 180. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,583 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yoel ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #462 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Joel (282,250 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yul, Yohel and Youel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yul (674), Yohel (21), Youel (5).
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 Yoel 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 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 37 | #462 | #607 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,017 | #1,108 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,031 | #878 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,757 | #2,116 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,091 | #1,029 |
| California | 7 | #2,198 | #1,315 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 103 | #1,643 |
| 2024 | — | — | 120 | #1,502 |
| 2023 | — | — | 156 | #1,247 |
| 2022 | — | — | 134 | #1,392 |
| 2021 | — | — | 140 | #1,332 |
| 2020 | — | — | 150 | #1,244 |
| 2019 | — | — | 180 | #1,101 |
| 2018 | — | — | 142 | #1,293 |
| 2017 | — | — | 147 | #1,251 |
| 2016 | — | — | 159 | #1,198 |
| 2015 | — | — | 134 | #1,325 |
| 2014 | — | — | 120 | #1,413 |
| 2013 | — | — | 109 | #1,499 |
| 2012 | — | — | 102 | #1,561 |
| 2011 | — | — | 109 | #1,494 |
| 2010 | — | — | 117 | #1,424 |
| 2009 | — | — | 95 | #1,664 |
| 2008 | — | — | 99 | #1,602 |
| 2007 | — | — | 94 | #1,649 |
| 2006 | — | — | 86 | #1,667 |
| 2005 | — | — | 75 | #1,771 |
| 2004 | — | — | 74 | #1,729 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,960 |
| 2002 | — | — | 81 | #1,542 |
| 2001 | — | — | 60 | #1,870 |
| 2000 | — | — | 65 | #1,741 |
| 1999 | — | — | 54 | #1,855 |
| 1998 | — | — | 50 | #1,956 |
| 1997 | — | — | 43 | #2,091 |
| 1996 | — | — | 45 | #1,985 |
| 1995 | — | — | 50 | #1,779 |
| 1994 | — | — | 58 | #1,607 |
| 1993 | — | — | 74 | #1,332 |
| 1992 | — | — | 40 | #1,999 |
| 1991 | — | — | 33 | #2,224 |
| 1990 | — | — | 45 | #1,778 |
| 1989 | — | — | 57 | #1,475 |
| 1988 | — | — | 52 | #1,480 |
| 1987 | — | — | 43 | #1,635 |
| 1986 | — | — | 47 | #1,475 |
| 1985 | — | — | 52 | #1,353 |
| 1984 | — | — | 58 | #1,213 |
| 1983 | — | — | 73 | #1,039 |
| 1982 | — | — | 89 | #956 |
| 1981 | — | — | 99 | #899 |
| 1980 | — | — | 127 | #779 |
| 1979 | — | — | 75 | #1,027 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,397 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,575 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,578 |
| 1974 | — | — | 9 | #3,832 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,498 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,743 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,426 |
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).