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Yasiel

Gender
Boy
Say it
yah-see-EL
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#1,906 for boys

Yasiel is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,906th for boys in the US (82 babies).

Where does Yasiel come from?

Modern: Cuban coinage, one of many Cuban names beginning with Y-

Is Yasiel a girl's or a boy's name?

Yasiel is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 82 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Yasiel in the US?

Rank in 2025
1,906th among boys
Babies in 2025
82 about 1 in 21,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady down 5% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 82 boys in the US were named Yasiel, making it the 1,906th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,418th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 93 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003.

2025 had more boys named Yasiel than any year since 2018.

Half of all the boys named Yasiel in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 90 boys in the US were given Yasiel or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,581, up from #1,906 for this spelling alone.

2003Busiest: 93 in 20182025
Yasiel in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202582#1,906
202477#1,997
202350#2,613
202271#2,093
202149#2,622
202054#2,418
201973#2,000
201893#1,687
201757#2,294
201640#2,934
201548#2,564
201469#2,043
201339#2,893
201212#6,620
201118#4,981
201010#7,585
200915#5,796
20088#9,013
20070–
20069#7,992
20059#7,633
20040–
20035#10,886

Names like Yasiel

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Yasiel

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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, “Yasiel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yasiel, updated 20 October 2026.