Yoel
A boys’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning god is willing; hebrew form of Joel.
Yoel by the numbers
In 2025, 15 babies in England and Wales were named Yoel. In the US, 143 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 157 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
Other names that come from Joel
Like Yoel, each of these traces back to Joel: a form of it, a name built from it, or a son or daughter of it. Not always the same sex.
- Joeljehovah is god; yahweh is lord2,248 in the US (2017)
- Joellegod is willing; feminine form of Joel455 in the US (2017)
- JoellaJehovah is God; feminine form of Joel74 in the US (2017)
- Joellthe lord is god; a form of Joel46 in the US (2017)
- Jueljehovah is god; a modern respelling of Joel40 in the US (2017)
- Jhoelgod is yahweh; a form of Joel5 in the US (2017)
- Joelajehovah is god; a form of Joel5 in the US (2017)
- Gioelegod is my strength; a form of Joel3 in England and Wales (2025)
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Yoel. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean God
Like Yoel, each of these has God in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
Names about as common as Yoel
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