Yariel
Yariel was given to 76 boys in 2025, #2,005 among boys’ names; 2,038 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,020 Americans named Yariel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yariel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yariel?
#2,005 among boys’ names, 2025
Yariel fell from #1,565 in 2015 to #2,005 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 54.3 to 44.5 per million.
131 babies in 2010, the peak
Yariel peaked in 2010, when 131 babies were given it (126 boys, #1,357 among boys’ names). The 76 births of 2025 are 58% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 76 | #2,005 | 44.5 |
| 2024 | 78 | #1,996 | 45.3 |
| 2023 | 83 | #1,907 | 48.5 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,131 | 40.1 |
| 2021 | 78 | #1,940 | 44.6 |
| 2020 | 80 | #1,871 | 46.3 |
| 2019 | 105 | #1,591 | 58.5 |
| 2018 | 86 | #1,791 | 47.4 |
| 2017 | 93 | #1,705 | 50.2 |
| 2016 | 101 | #1,609 | 53.2 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 104 | #1,565 | 54.3 |
| 2014 | 105 | #1,533 | 54.7 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,482 | 58.7 |
| 2012 | 109 | #1,489 | 57.5 |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,560 | 53.7 |
| 2010 | 126 | #1,357 | 65.7 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,486 | 57.0 |
| 2008 | 106 | #1,531 | 52.0 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,092 | 31.8 |
| 2006 | 76 | #1,822 | 37.0 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,084 | 17.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,408 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,104 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,900 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,880 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,176 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,854 | 4.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,978 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,772 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,123 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,405 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,505 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yariel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yariel has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yariel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yariel, and how old are they?
2,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,038 Americans ever recorded as Yariel. The median Yariel alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 1,875 people named Yariel (61 women and girls, 1,814 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,580 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 30 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 827 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,160 |
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 Yariel born?
The states with the most babies named Yariel are Florida, Texas and New Jersey, with 84% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 10 | #1,254 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,754 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #910 | 3.0× |
| New York | 5 | #2,031 | 2.4× |
Where Yariel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yariel is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1991 it was given 3.4 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 Yariel 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,890 babies since 1880, Yariel is the most given (71% of them). In 2025 it was given to 76 of their 113 babies (67%), 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 Yariel
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 Yariel and names like it
- Compare Yariel and YerielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYariel peaked in 2010.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yariel since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Yariel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yariel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.