girls:
10 births since 2009
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1991
#2889 (37th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1991
#5876 (24th percentile)
The name Yariel is the #5,876 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,884 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 24.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,889 (37.0% percentile) for all time with 1,874 births since 1991. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2009.
Yariel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for boys and 2009 for girls). Birth data for Yariel is available in 30 out of the 33 years between 1991 and 2023 (30 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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.
The name Yariel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yariel reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 13.8% percentile (ranked #759) with 61 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 61 births per million (ranked 13.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yariel ranks #833 for boys (8.6% percentile) with 45 births per million, which is 73.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Yariel reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #944) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yariel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Yariel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.9% confident that Yariel is pronounced as YAH-ree-ehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yah-ree-EHL, at 18.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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