Yandel
Yandel was given to 46 boys in 2025, #2,794 among boys’ names; 3,748 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,710 Americans named Yandel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 13 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yandel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yandel?
#2,794 among boys’ names, 2025
Yandel fell from #1,387 in 2015 to #2,794 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 65.2 to 26.9 per million.
511 babies in 2009, the peak
Yandel peaked in 2009, when 511 boys were given it, #530 among boys’ names. The 46 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 46 | #2,794 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,328 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,478 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,333 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 46 | #2,772 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,755 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 59 | #2,336 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,164 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 81 | #1,843 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 114 | #1,499 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 125 | #1,387 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 174 | #1,101 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 155 | #1,168 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 205 | #978 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 280 | #794 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 360 | #666 | 0.19 |
| 2009 | 511 | #530 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 461 | #564 | 0.23 |
| 2007 | 306 | #740 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 336 | #677 | 0.16 |
| 2005 | 123 | #1,270 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 78 | #1,666 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,103 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,116 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,510 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yandel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yandel has been given almost only to boys: 9 girls in 25 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yandel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yandel, and how old are they?
3,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,748 Americans ever recorded as Yandel. The median Yandel alive today is 16 years old; half are between 13 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,802 people named Yandel (52 women and girls, 2,750 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,465 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,680 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,030 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Yandel born?
The states with the most babies named Yandel are New Jersey, Texas and New York, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 7 | #909 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,556 | 1.4× |
| New York | 6 | #1,752 | 1.6× |
| California | 5 | #2,802 | 0.9× |
Where Yandel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yandel is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 2001 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Yandel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,198 babies since 1880, Yandel is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 46 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Yandel
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 Yandel and names like it
- Compare Yandel and YandielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYandel peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yandel since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Yandel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yandel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.