Yanelis
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 21 babies a year in the US.
Yanelis by the numbers
Yanelis was given to 21 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 46 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Yanelis
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
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