Yakelin
Yakelin was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,878 among girls’ names; 562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yakelin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yakelin?
#11,878 among girls’ names, 2025
Yakelin fell from #7,592 in 2015 to #11,878 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 5.0 per million.
37 babies in 2000, the peak
Yakelin peaked in 2000, when 37 girls were given it, #3,585 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,878 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,588 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,141 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,511 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,396 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,402 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,393 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,575 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,823 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,592 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,887 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,553 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,092 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,347 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,624 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,700 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,270 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,291 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 29 | #4,949 | 15.3 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,801 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,379 | 17.4 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,521 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,172 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,100 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,585 | 20.4 |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,031 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,089 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,154 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,763 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,750 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,752 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,705 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,443 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,413 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yakelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yakelin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yakelin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yakelin, and how old are they?
An estimated 556 Americans named Yakelin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 615 people named Yakelin (614 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 517 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,618 babies since 1880, Yakelin is the second most given (35% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yakelin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yakelin and names like it
- Compare Yakelin and YocelinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYakelin peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yakelin since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Yakelin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yakelin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.