Yasiel
Yasiel was given to 82 boys in 2025, #1,916 among boys’ names; 888 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yasiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yasiel?
#1,916 among boys’ names, 2025
Yasiel rose from #2,598 in 2015 to #1,916 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 25.0 to 48.0 per million.
93 babies in 2018, the peak
Yasiel peaked in 2018, when 93 boys were given it, #1,706 among boys’ names. The 82 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 82 | #1,916 | 48.0 |
| 2024 | 77 | #2,010 | 44.7 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,655 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 71 | #2,114 | 40.7 |
| 2021 | 49 | #2,646 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,435 | 31.3 |
| 2019 | 73 | #2,017 | 40.7 |
| 2018 | 93 | #1,706 | 51.2 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,315 | 30.8 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,988 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #2,598 | 25.0 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,061 | 35.9 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,951 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 12 | #7,025 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,191 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 10 | #8,109 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,075 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,837 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,700 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,268 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,706 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yasiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yasiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yasiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yasiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 881 Americans named Yasiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 754 people named Yasiel (37 women and girls, 717 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 515 born in the U.S. The Census count is 46% 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.
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 Yasiel born?
The states with the most babies named Yasiel are New York, California and Florida, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 11 | #1,115 | 0.5× |
| California | 10 | #1,683 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,471 | 1.4× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #827 | 0.3× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,270 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,222 | 0.3× |
Where Yasiel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yasiel is most over-represented in California: since 2003 it was given 1.8 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 Yasiel 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 1,066 babies since 1880, Yasiel is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 82 of their 99 babies (83%), 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 Yasiel
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 Yasiel and names like it
- Compare Yasiel and YosielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYasiel peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yasiel since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Yasiel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yasiel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.