Yorel
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Yorel by the numbers
Yorel was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 9 babies in 2007, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Yorel
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.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Yorel. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Yoelgod is willing; hebrew form of Joel143 in the US (2017)
- Yarel22 in the US (2017)
- Yosefgod will increase; a form of Joseph366 in the US (2017)
- Yarielgod is my light; a form of Uriel93 in the US (2017)
- Yaredhe descended7 in England and Wales (2025)
- Yerielgod is my light; variant of Uriel14 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Yorel
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