Yoel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Joel), borne by a biblical prophet
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʝoel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yoel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name.
- VEVenezuela1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 288as Joel
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 455as Joel
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yoel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #244 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 600 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈380,000 named Joel, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Venezuela
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Joel in US United States, PH Philippines, BR Brazil and 7 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)
Joel), borne by a biblical prophet. Vars.: Joel (see also Jekyll); Yoeli, Joeli, Joely (with the Hebr. suffix -i).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yoel 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #12 | ≈380,000 est. | ≈1 in 288 | — | Joel | 173 |
| US United States | #212 | 256,017as Joel | 1 in 1.3K | 254K | Joel | 600 |
| NG Nigeria | #233 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Joel | 109 |
| BR Brazil | #167 | 129,772as Joel | 1 in 1.6K | 144K | Joel | 189 |
| KE Kenya | #93 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 741 | — | Joel | 79 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 30,633as Joel | 1 in 552 | 31K | Joel | 66 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #17 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 455 | — | Joel | 89 |
| SE Sweden | #179 | 22,041as Joel | 1 in 463 | 22K | Joel | 124 |
| FI Finland | #840 | 11,721as Joel | 1 in 475 | 14K | Joel | 73 |
| VE Venezuela | #86 | 10,414 | 1 in 2.8K | 10K | Joel | 86 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yoel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Atenas; Smyrna; Salonika; Buenos Aires
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In French, Variante de Joël; de l’hébreu, « Yahvé est Dieu ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Joel Sussmanb. 1910ILIsraeli judge
- Yoel Levib. 1950ILIsraeli conductor
- July Edelsteinb. 1958ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician
- Yoel Strickb. 1966ILIsraeli military officer
- Yoel Garcíab. 1973CUathletics competitor
- Yoel Romerob. 1977CUCuban mixed martial artist and wrestler (born 1977)
- Joel Razvozovb. 1980ILIsraeli politician and former judoka
- Yoel Rozenkierb. 1986ILIsraeli actor
- Yoel Rodríguezb. 1988ESSpanish footballer
- Yoel Finolb. 1996VEVenezuelan boxer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 58 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 10K | #140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.9K | #3,984 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 236 | #4,668 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 152 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 147 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 147 | #31,519 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 103 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #7,264 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 31 | #3,984 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 22 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #27,919 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 18 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Yoel?
- A machine transcription gives /ʝoel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Where does the name Yoel come from?
- Joel), borne by a biblical prophet. Vars.: Joel (see also Jekyll); Yoeli, Joeli, Joely (with the Hebr. suffix -i). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- Is Yoel a male or female name?
- Yoel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Yoel mean?
- Recorded meaning: Joel), borne by a biblical prophet.
- What are other forms of the name Yoel?
- In the etymology graph, Joel, Joël and Gioele are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yoel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 379 thousand people named Joel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yoel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yoel is densest in Venezuela — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yoel?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 10,414 people named Yoel, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Yoel compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Yoel is the 12th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yoelThe 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, “Yoel” — the 12th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.