Yanelli
Yanelli was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,310 among girls’ names; 545 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yanelli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yanelli?
#6,310 among girls’ names, 2025
Yanelli rose from #9,458 in 2015 to #6,310 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.7 to 11.8 per million.
28 babies in 2013, the peak
Yanelli peaked in 2013, when 28 girls were given it, #5,009 among girls’ names. The 19 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,310 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,150 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,467 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,451 | 11.6 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,160 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,926 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,110 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,994 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,267 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,735 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,458 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,619 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 28 | #5,009 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,326 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,323 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,625 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,301 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,445 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,800 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,128 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,785 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,478 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,193 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,216 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,605 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 13 | #8,012 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,201 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,350 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,316 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,565 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,706 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,756 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,561 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,446 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,481 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,201 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,513 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yanelli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yanelli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yanelli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yanelli, and how old are they?
An estimated 540 Americans named Yanelli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 436 people named Yanelli (430 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 441 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Yanelli?
Yanelli is a less common spelling of Yaneli: SSA has recorded 545 Yanelli and 3,911 Yaneli since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,352 babies since 1880, Yanelli is the fourth most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 297 babies (6.4%), the third most given that year.
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 Yanelli
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 Yanelli and names like it
- Compare Yanelli and YaneliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYanelli peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yanelli since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Yanelli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yanelli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.