Yanelly
Yanelly was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,833 among girls’ names; 846 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yanelly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yanelly?
#8,833 among girls’ names, 2025
Yanelly fell from #5,120 in 2015 to #8,833 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 7.5 per million.
37 babies in 2007, the peak
Yanelly peaked in 2007, when 37 girls were given it, #4,206 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,833 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,625 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,579 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,609 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,394 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,548 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,437 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,772 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,801 | 16.8 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,890 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,120 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,446 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,640 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,593 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,067 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,588 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,364 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 34 | #4,545 | 18.0 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,206 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,452 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,187 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,486 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,522 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,064 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,998 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,197 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,712 | 18.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,088 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,155 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 20 | #5,054 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,207 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,086 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,603 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,495 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,995 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,391 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,514 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,841 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,221 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yanelly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yanelly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yanelly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yanelly, and how old are they?
An estimated 837 Americans named Yanelly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 12 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 686 people named Yanelly (684 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 753 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% 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).
Where are babies named Yanelly born?
The states with the most babies named Yanelly are California, Texas and Florida, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 172 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Texas | 131 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Yanelly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yanelly is most over-represented in Texas: since 1987 it was given 1.6 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 girls’ 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 Yanelly with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Yanelly?
Yanelly is a less common spelling of Yaneli: SSA has recorded 846 Yanelly and 3,911 Yaneli since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,363 babies since 1880, Yanelly is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 292 babies (4.1%), the fourth 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 Yanelly
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 Yanelly and names like it
- Compare Yanelly and YaneliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sYanelly peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yanelly since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Yanelly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yanelly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.