Yoel

Where Yoel comes from

The dictionaries list Yoel as a given name — a male given name from Hebrew, variant of Joel — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #4,724 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Yoel Romero born
    Cuban mixed martial artist and wrestler
  3. 1980
    Peak, #777
    127 babies named Yoel — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1984
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,198.
  5. 1988
    Yoel Rodríguez born
    Spanish footballer
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Joel.
Namesakes
  • Yoel Romero · Cuban mixed martial artist and wrestler, born 1977
  • Yoel Rodríguez · Spanish footballer, born 1988
  • Yoel Finol · Venezuelan boxer, born 1996
  • Yoel García · Cuban athletics competitor, born 1973
  • Yoel Levi · Israeli conductor, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.