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Yahel

About 803 American babies have been named Yahel since 2001, most of them around 2014. In 2025 it ranked 4,139th. About 800 Yahels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Yahel boys named Yahel

By the numbers

Total US births
803
Estimated living today
800
Median age today
12
Peak year
2014
Best rank
1,812th
Rank in 2025
4,139th
First recorded
2001
Girls / boys
21 / 782

How old the living Yahels are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 803 babies given the name since 2001, about 800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 720 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Yahel is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Yahel is most concentrated in Texas (5.7×), California (4.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2014

The most popular boys’ names the year Yahel peaked:

All the names of 2014

Yahel elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Yahel +1 spelling 125 2,993rd
France girls Yahel 40 1,320th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Where Yahel lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 184 men called Yahel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Palmas, Las Yahel 23 0.040 1,908
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Yahel 15 0.028 2,547
Asturias Yahel 6 0.012 2,807
Alicante/Alacant Yahel 11 0.011 4,324
Cádiz Yahel 6 0.010 2,465
Valencia/València Yahel 13 0.010 4,191

Listed in 7 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 45 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.