girls:
16 births since 2002
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
724 births since 2001
#3863 (16th percentile)
overall:
740 births since 2001
#6999 (10th percentile)
The name Yahel is the #6,999 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 740 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 9.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,863 (15.7% percentile) for all time with 724 births since 2001. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 2002.
Yahel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (2001 for boys and 2002 for girls).
The name Yahel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yahel reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 8.5% percentile (ranked #827) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 40 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yahel ranks #895 for boys (1.8% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 28.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Yahel reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #983) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yahel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Yahel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.4% confident that Yahel is pronounced as yah-HEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yuh-HEHL, at 31.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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