girls:
9 births since 2006
#5707 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.7k births since 2001
#2051 (55th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 2001
#4528 (41st percentile)
The name Yandel is the #4,528 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,666 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 41.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,051 (55.3% percentile) for all time with 3,657 births since 2001. For girls, it ranks #5,707 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 9 births since 2006.
Yandel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (2001 for boys and 2006 for girls).
The name Yandel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yandel reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 47.0% percentile (ranked #478) with 241 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 241 births per million (ranked 47.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yandel ranks #861 for boys (5.5% percentile) with 30 births per million, which is 12.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Yandel reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #962) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yandel".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Yandel.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Yandel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Yandel.
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Yandel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Yandel is pronounced as YAN-dehl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YAHN-dehl, at 19.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Yandel? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Yandel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Yandel, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like Y AE1 N D EH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker