Yul
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1960 · 32 births
- Debut · boys
- 31 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 674since 1957
Yul over time
Rank among boys' names. Yul 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 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #10,863 | 6 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #10,803 | 6 |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
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| 2002 | #9,392 | 6 |
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| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
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| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #5,452 | 10 |
| 1993 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #3,599 | 12 |
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| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | — | |
| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #3,203 | 12 |
| 1976 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #3,078 | 12 |
| 1974 | #2,799 | 13 |
| 1973 | #3,223 | 10 |
| 1972 | #2,659 | 13 |
| 1971 | #2,052 | 20 |
| 1970 | #1,939 | 21 |
| 1969 | #1,914 | 19 |
| 1968 | #2,030 | 16 |
| 1967 | #2,030 | 15 |
| 1966 | #1,484 | 27 |
| 1965 | #1,625 | 23 |
| 1964 | #2,040 | 16 |
| 1963 | #1,548 | 26 |
| 1962 | #2,035 | 16 |
| 1961 | #1,496 | 29 |
| 1960 | #1,400 | 32 |
| 1959 | #1,620 | 24 |
| 1958 | #1,593 | 24 |
| 1957 | #1,411 | 31 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yul! It came in at #1,411, and was given to 31 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Yul
- 3,269 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #12,008)
- 3,264 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1957
- Peaked 1960 at #1,400 (32 births)
- Births halved by 1962, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 66,054 boys born in 1966 were named Yul (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,400 in 1960, was only 1 in 66,635 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.5% of all boys named Yul (219) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 79 | #1,411 (1957) | #1,541 |
| 1960s | 219 | #1,400 (1960) | #1,760 |
| 1970s | 116 | #1,939 (1970) | #3,082 |
| 1980s | 61 | #3,599 (1985) | #5,335 |
| 1990s | 54 | #4,564 (1992) | #6,968 |
| 2000s | 55 | #6,262 (2007) | #8,271 |
| 2010s | 65 | #5,485 (2014) | #9,346 |
| 2020s | 25 | #8,739 (2020) | #10,608 |
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.
Yul in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 154,018 of them was named Yul, which outranked 52.6% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,401Zac13
- #3,401Zakee13
- #3,401Zeb13
- #3,599Yul12
- #3,599Abbas12
- #3,599Abdallah12
- #3,599Abigail12
- #3,805Achary11
- #3,805Aditya11
- #3,805Alika11
Tied with 205 names at #3,599; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.