Yael
#1,631 for girls in 2025, 127 births · #817 for boys in 2025, 304 births
Given to boys 53.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 329 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,207since 1984
Yael over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,631 | 127 | #817 | 304 |
| 2024 | #1,591 | 132 | #785 | 320 |
| 2023 | #1,506 | 143 | #775 | 329 |
| 2022 | #1,381 | 166 | #993 | 225 |
| 2021 | #1,532 | 137 | #1,032 | 211 |
| 2020 | #1,545 | 137 | #1,011 | 206 |
| 2019 | #1,763 | 116 | #961 | 222 |
| 2018 | #1,890 | 106 | #933 | 225 |
| 2017 | #1,761 | 119 | #1,023 | 197 |
| 2016 | #1,693 | 126 | #1,080 | 182 |
| 2015 | #1,883 | 108 | #1,092 | 178 |
| 2014 | #1,830 | 111 | #913 | 235 |
| 2013 | #1,953 | 101 | #871 | 243 |
| 2012 | #1,859 | 108 | #880 | 238 |
| 2011 | #1,874 | 107 | #1,054 | 179 |
| 2010 | #1,783 | 115 | #920 | 219 |
| 2009 | #1,947 | 107 | #926 | 223 |
| 2008 | #2,137 | 94 | #912 | 226 |
| 2007 | #2,257 | 86 | #934 | 212 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 | #1,021 | 180 |
| 2005 | #2,359 | 75 | #1,046 | 159 |
| 2004 | #1,999 | 92 | #1,132 | 139 |
| 2003 | #2,167 | 80 | #1,277 | 111 |
| 2002 | #2,028 | 85 | #1,792 | 64 |
| 2001 | #1,941 | 89 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #1,938 | 87 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #2,182 | 69 | #2,939 | 28 |
| 1998 | #2,146 | 67 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #1,980 | 71 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #2,588 | 48 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #2,241 | 58 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,034 | 67 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,258 | 56 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #2,278 | 52 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #2,051 | 57 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,098 | 52 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #1,838 | 61 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,398 | 41 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,866 | 57 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #1,858 | 56 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,873 | 57 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,265 | 44 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,218 | 45 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,430 | 38 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,915 | 51 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,832 | 55 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,060 | 42 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,629 | 27 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,398 | 30 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,665 | 27 | — | |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,866 | 8 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,011 | 11 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,882 | 8 | — | |
| 1960 | #5,696 | 6 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 | — | |
| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 | — | |
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| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yael! It came in at #6,315, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1986, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yael
- 32 spots since 2024 (#785 → #817)
- 194 spots since 2020 (#1,011 → #817)
- 275 spots since 2015 (#1,092 → #817)
- Biggest jump: 218 spots in 2023 (#993 → #775)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 2015 (#913 → #1,092)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2023 at #775 (329 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2007–2010
- Highest: 1 in 5,199 boys born in 2023 were named Yael (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,619 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 40.7% of all boys named Yael (2,118) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 21 | #4,573 (1987) | #5,706 |
| 1990s | 99 | #2,939 (1999) | #4,402 |
| 2000s | 1,374 | #912 (2008) | #1,498 |
| 2010s | 2,118 | #871 (2013) | #973 |
| 2020s | 1,595 | #775 (2023) | #902 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yael in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 35,453 of them was named Yael, which outranked 84.3% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,250Sparkle53
- #2,250Sydnie53
- #2,250Tangela53
- #2,278Yael52
- #2,278Adelina52
- #2,278Alivia52
- #2,278Annalee52
- #2,304Blythe51
- #2,304Bobby51
- #2,304Brie51
Tied with 25 names at #2,278; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 285,847 of them was named Yael, which outranked 32.5% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).