Yarel
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- yah-REL
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Yarel is a name. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
Where does Yarel come from?
Uncertain; used mainly by Hispanic families, perhaps a variant of Yariel
Is Yarel a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Yarel has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls and 13 boys in the US.
How popular is Yarel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,442among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Yarel, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 31 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006. 8 girls were also named Yarel in 2025 (10,913th for girls).
2025 had more boys named Yarel than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Yarel in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Girls were 75% of the babies named Yarel in the US in 2008, and 56% in 2015.
Yarel in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,785 |
| 2015 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,389 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,403 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,682 |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,939 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,845 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,033 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,537 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
Names like Yarel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ares Axel Luca Aziel Yadiel Thiago Azriel Yael Ezra Abdiel Jaziel Sawyer
Names related to Yarel
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yarel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yarel, updated 20 October 2026.