girls:
146 births since 2005
#5570 (3rd percentile)
overall:
146 births since 2005
#7593 (2nd percentile)
The name Yaelis is the #7,593 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 146 recorded births since 2005. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,570 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 146 births since 2005.
Yaelis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2005 (first recorded for girls in 2005). Birth data for Yaelis is available in 16 out of the 19 years between 2005 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Yaelis reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #942) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Yaelis ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 49.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yaelis".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Yaelis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.0% confident that Yaelis is pronounced as yah-EH-lihs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YAY-ih-lihs, at 11.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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