Yoel — #1501 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yoel

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,122 babies named Yoel between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yoel currently holds the #1501 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 180 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yoel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,319 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Yoel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 1,793 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Yoel in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yoel 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 4,122 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.