Yael — #790 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yael

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,899 babies named Yael between 1984 and 2024, spanning 41 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yael currently holds the #790 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 328 babies received it in a single year. Yael is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 4,371 additional births since 1954.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yael performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 2,118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Yael shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,119 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Yael in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yael in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,899 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.