Yael
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Prénom mixte à forte tendance féminine; d’origine hébraïque, signifie « antilope »
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Yael is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 790(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 12K
- CLChile≈1 in 14K
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)
- Sources
- 318 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 790 (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Prénom mixte à forte tendance féminine; d’origine hébraïque, signifie « antilope ».
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yael 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 | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 790 | — | Yael | 97 |
| US United States | — | 7,524 | 1 in 44K | 4.4K | Yael | 318 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 3.1K | Yael | 6 |
| AR Argentina | #490 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 433 | Yael | 95 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,398 | 1 in 36K | 1.4K | Yael | 77 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 11 | Yael | 56 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #608 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Yael | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | #437 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | 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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Yael 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.
Antílope
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Jewish: from a Hebrew word denoting a female wild goat. The name is borne in the Bible by a Kenite woman who killed Sisera, the Canaanite general and an enemy of the Israelites (Judges 4: 17–22). It has remained extremely popular among Jews to the present day. Variant: Jael .
as a word
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)
- Yael Dayanb. 1939ILIsraeli politician (1939–2024)
- Yaël Abecassisb. 1967ILIsraeli actress and model
- Yael Aradb. 1967ILIsraeli judoka
- Yael Bartanab. 1970ILIsraeli artist (born 1970)
- Yaʿel Ronenb. 1976ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli screenwriter
- Yael Naimb. 1978FRIsraeli singer
- Yael Goldmanb. 1978ILIsraeli television host, actress, and model
- Yael Grobglasb. 1984ILFrench-Israeli actress
- Yael Stoneb. 1985AUAustralian actress
- סשהb. 2001ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli model and actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 69 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.4K | #2,983 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.2K | #2,983 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3.1K | #2,184 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 3K | #3,383 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.4K | #2,266 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1K | #1,242 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 433 | #313 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 402 | #2,482 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 304 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 127 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 18 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 18 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Yael mean?
- Recorded meaning: Prénom mixte à forte tendance féminine; d’origine hébraïque, signifie « antilope ».
- Is Yael a male or female name?
- Yael 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 are other forms of the name Yael?
- In the etymology graph, Jael, Jahel and Iahel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Yael have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Yael in Israel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yael.
- How common is the name Yael?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,524 people named Yael in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Yael compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Yael is the 437th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yaelThe 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, “Yael” — the 437th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.