Yoel
Yoel was given to 103 boys in 2025, #1,643 among boys’ names; 4,227 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,130 Americans named Yoel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yoel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yoel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yoel is “a male given name from Hebrew, variant of Joel.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yoel?
#1,643 among boys’ names, 2025
Yoel fell from #1,325 in 2015 to #1,643 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 69.9 to 60.3 per million.
180 babies in 2019, the peak
Yoel peaked in 2019, when 180 boys were given it, #1,101 among boys’ names. The 103 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 103 | #1,643 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 120 | #1,502 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 156 | #1,247 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 134 | #1,392 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 140 | #1,332 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 150 | #1,244 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 180 | #1,101 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 142 | #1,293 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,251 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 159 | #1,198 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 134 | #1,325 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,413 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,499 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,561 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 109 | #1,494 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 117 | #1,424 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 95 | #1,663 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 99 | #1,602 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 94 | #1,649 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 86 | #1,667 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 75 | #1,768 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 74 | #1,726 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,956 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 81 | #1,539 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 60 | #1,866 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 65 | #1,737 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 54 | #1,852 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 50 | #1,953 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,088 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 45 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,774 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 58 | #1,602 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,327 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 40 | #1,994 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 33 | #2,218 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,773 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 57 | #1,470 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 52 | #1,475 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,633 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 47 | #1,474 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 52 | #1,352 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,212 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,039 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 89 | #956 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 99 | #899 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 127 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 75 | #1,027 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,396 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,573 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,576 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,830 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,424 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yoel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yoel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yoel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yoel, and how old are they?
4,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,227 Americans ever recorded as Yoel. The median Yoel alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 4,884 people named Yoel (31 women and girls, 4,853 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 233 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 867 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,780 |
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 Yoel born?
The states with the most babies named Yoel are New York, Texas and California, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 37 | #462 | 6.9× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,757 | 0.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,198 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,017 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,091 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,031 | 0.3× |
Where Yoel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yoel is most over-represented in New York: since 1970 it was given 6.9 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 Yoel 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 15,412 babies since 1880, Yoel is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 103 of their 564 babies (18%), again the second 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 Yoel
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 Yoel and names like it
- Compare Yoel and YaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sYoel peaked in 2019.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yoel since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Yoel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yoel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.