Yitzel — girls' name
186 babies named Yitzel in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
50% of everyone ever named Yitzel was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Yitzel in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yitzel
The Social Security Administration has registered 186 babies named Yitzel between 1998 and 2019, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yitzel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yitzel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 93 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Yitzel shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Yitzel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yitzel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 186 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Yitzel at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Yitzel popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1998
- Peak year (2011)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
186 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 17 births in a single year.
Yitzel by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 93 births that decade — 50% of Yitzel's all-time total
Yitzel decade highlights
- Peak decade 93 births
- Runner-up 88 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Yitzel's strongest decade
93 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
Yitzel by state
Where Yitzel concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 12 | 6.5% |
12 of 186 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 6.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 6.5% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.