Yechiel
#1,906 for boys in 2025, 82 births
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 77 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,971since 1959
Yechiel over time
Rank among boys' names. Yechiel has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,906 | 82 |
| 2024 | #1,938 | 81 |
| 2023 | #2,064 | 72 |
| 2022 | #2,117 | 70 |
| 2021 | #2,349 | 58 |
| 2020 | #2,437 | 53 |
| 2019 | #2,062 | 70 |
| 2018 | #2,507 | 51 |
| 2017 | #2,270 | 58 |
| 2016 | #2,184 | 62 |
| 2015 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2014 | #1,884 | 77 |
| 2013 | #2,165 | 61 |
| 2012 | #2,238 | 58 |
| 2011 | #2,232 | 58 |
| 2010 | #2,262 | 57 |
| 2009 | #2,663 | 46 |
| 2008 | #2,432 | 52 |
| 2007 | #2,235 | 59 |
| 2006 | #2,449 | 50 |
| 2005 | #2,902 | 36 |
| 2004 | #2,531 | 43 |
| 2003 | #2,579 | 39 |
| 2002 | #2,428 | 41 |
| 2001 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #2,674 | 34 |
| 1999 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #2,782 | 29 |
| 1997 | #3,455 | 20 |
| 1996 | #2,483 | 31 |
| 1995 | #2,923 | 24 |
| 1994 | #3,326 | 20 |
| 1993 | #2,641 | 27 |
| 1992 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 24 |
| 1989 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #3,705 | 13 |
| 1987 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #2,510 | 21 |
| 1985 | #2,710 | 18 |
| 1984 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #3,411 | 12 |
| 1982 | #2,972 | 15 |
| 1981 | #3,030 | 14 |
| 1980 | #2,965 | 15 |
| 1979 | #4,068 | 9 |
| 1978 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 9 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
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| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
| 1967 | #3,966 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yechiel! It came in at #3,988, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1959–1967, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yechiel
- 32 spots since 2024 (#1,938 → #1,906)
- 531 spots since 2020 (#2,437 → #1,906)
- 180 spots since 2015 (#2,086 → #1,906)
- Debuted 1959
- Peaked 2014 at #1,884 (77 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,830 boys born in 2025 were named Yechiel (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,884 in 2014, was only 1 in 24,946 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.4% of all boys named Yechiel (619) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,988 (1959) | #3,988 |
| 1960s | 13 | #3,107 (1968) | #3,537 |
| 1970s | 91 | #2,669 (1978) | #3,529 |
| 1980s | 161 | #2,510 (1986) | #3,016 |
| 1990s | 233 | #2,483 (1996) | #3,085 |
| 2000s | 433 | #2,235 (2007) | #2,569 |
| 2010s | 619 | #1,884 (2014) | #2,189 |
| 2020s | 416 | #1,906 (2025) | #2,135 |
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.
Yechiel in 2007
Top boys' names in 2007
More about 2007
boys
2,075,414 boys got a published name in 2007; 1 in 35,177 of them was named Yechiel, which outranked 84.5% of the 14,394 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,213Rishabh60
- #2,213Tory60
- #2,213Wilbert60
- #2,235Yechiel59
- #2,235Akiva59
- #2,235Ambrose59
- #2,235Asael59
- #2,257Aharon58
- #2,257Basil58
- #2,257Blair58
Tied with 21 names at #2,235; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.