Yaél
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Yaël, du hébreu yā‘el « bouquetin »
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: SRCEI, 2019
Yaél is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 690(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 11K
- CLChile≈1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 693 (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yael in AR Argentina, US United States, MX Mexico and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variante de Yaël, du hébreu yā‘el « bouquetin ».
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yaél counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 693 | — | Yael | 97 |
| MX Mexico | #781 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 9 | Yael | 169 |
| US United States | — | 7,524 | 1 in 44K | 4.4K | Yael | 318 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 3.1K | Yael | 6 |
| AR Argentina | #490 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 433 | Yael | 95 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 11 | Yael | 56 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 45 | Yael | 28 |
| UY Uruguay | #437 | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Yael | 27 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yaél a male or female name?
- Yaél is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Yaél mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante de Yaël, du hébreu yā‘el « bouquetin ».
- Which countries have the most people named Yaél?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Yaél in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yael. After it come Mexico, United States, France and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Yaél?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,524 people named Yaél in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Yaél compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Yaél is the 437th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yaél?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ya%C3%A9lThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yaél” — the 437th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.