Yanela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʝanela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yanela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 27K
- PEPeru≈1 in 35K
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.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yanela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 27K | 5 | Yanela | 45 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Yanela | 33 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Yanela | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | #314 | 443 | 1 in 7.6K | 443 | Yanela | 15 |
| US United States | — | 394 | 1 in 844K | 392 | Yanela | 101 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Yanela | 12 |
| PA Panama | #746 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | Yanela | 15 |
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 — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election. 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)
Yanela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bnt-phu, to be enough
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
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 19 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 443 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 437 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 392 | #24,456 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2012 | 184 | #730 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2013 | 156 | #776 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2014 | 95 | #995 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2016 | 86 | #1,043 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2015 | 69 | #1,148 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2017 | 57 | #1,276 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2018 | 49 | #1,352 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2020 | 34 | #1,471 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2019 | 33 | #1,565 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Yanela?
- A machine transcription gives /ʝanela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Yanela a male or female name?
- Yanela is a female 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.
- In which country does Yanela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Yanela in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yanela.
- Where is Yanela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yanela is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yanela?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 443 people named Yanela, about 1 in 7.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Yanela compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Yanela is the 314th most common given name of 12,212 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yanela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yanelaThe 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, “Yanela” — the 314th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.