boys:
669 births since 1957
#3918 (15th percentile)
overall:
669 births since 1957
#7070 (9th percentile)
The name Yul is the #7,070 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 669 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 8.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,918 (14.5% percentile) for all time with 669 births since 1957.
Yul first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (first recorded for boys in 1957). Birth data for Yul is available in 54 out of the 67 years between 1957 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, Yul reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #630) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 15 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Yul ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 22.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yul".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yul. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Yul is pronounced as yuel, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yuhl, at 15.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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