boys:
593 births since 1998
#3993 (13th percentile)
overall:
593 births since 1998
#7146 (8th percentile)
The name Yaniel is the #7,146 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 593 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 7.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,993 (12.9% percentile) for all time with 593 births since 1998.
Yaniel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for boys in 1998). Birth data for Yaniel is available in 25 out of the 26 years between 1998 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 boys, Yaniel reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #853) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 26 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yaniel ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 38.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yaniel".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Yaniel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.3% confident that Yaniel is pronounced as yah-nee-EHL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YAH-nee-ehl, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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