Yamel — unisex name

What the Data Says About Yamel

The Social Security Administration has registered 153 babies named Yamel between 1975 and 2013, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yamel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1999, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Yamel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 26 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yamel performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 59 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Yamel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yamel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yamel 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 153 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.