Yoel

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yoel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In the Philippines it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Joel), borne by a biblical prophet.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 350◐
  • FRFrance1 in 463
  • SESweden1 in 463

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈633K ●

across 9 countries

#275 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
538 ●

4.8M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 463 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

JoelLatin · English●2.7M records
יואלHebrew · Hebrew●61K records
요엘Hangul · Korean●287 records
ИоильCyrillic · Russian●120 records
ᲯოელGeorgian · Georgian●20 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Joel in US United States, BR Brazil, FR France and 26 more and יואל in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Joel), borne by a biblical prophet. Vars.: Joel (see also Jekyll); Yoeli, Joeli, Joely (with the Hebr. suffix -i).

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Yoel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#232617,372295K rec.—917Joel112
PH Philippines#14477,298377K rec.——Joel159
MX Mexico#129408,743316K rec.—1.2KJoel215
PE Peru#96298,168246K rec.——Joel107
VE Venezuela#81284,033117K rec.—10KJoel86
US United States#203254,4462.2M rec.1 in 1.3K254KJoel538
FR France#156146,600249K rec.1 in 463147KJoel361
AU Australia#169132,49685K rec.—100Joel295
BR Brazil#209129,772191K rec.1 in 1.6K144KJoel187
GB United Kingdom#286111,17686K rec.—3Joel235
CA Canada#21463,45855K rec.—14Joel232
IL Israel#20457,12974K rec.—477יואל87

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish224K75%
  • English35K12%
  • Hebrew5.1K2%
  • French4.7K2%
  • Arabic4.2K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish223,97675%
English34,58912%
Hebrew5,0992%
French4,6642%
Arabic4,2221%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yoel is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name47K records spelled Yoel21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, France, Spain

    Languages: English, French, Catalan

    Also written Yoël, Yo'El, Yo-El, Yoèl, Yoêl

  • a separate given name2.4K records spelled Yoel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Israel, Ethiopia

    Also written Yoël

  • Lao given name827 records spelled Yoel33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Joel, Billy, โจเอล, โยเอล, Joël

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name455 records spelled Yoel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Peru

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Yoël

  • Finnish given name172 records spelled Yoel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Peru, United States, Bolivia

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Yoël

  • Italian given name148 records spelled Yoel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Israel, Spain

    Also written Yoël

  • Russian surname121 records spelled Yoel17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Türkiye, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Иоэль, Йоэль, Иоель, Йоель, Ioel

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Yoel 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.

  • Atenas; Smyrna; Salonika; Buenos Aires

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In French, Variante de Joël; de l’hébreu, « Yahvé est Dieu ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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.

Over time●

0102030196019802000202030 · 1999

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Yoel in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1953–2024
Yearrecords
19531
19581
19591
19611
19671
19694
19702
19713
19723
19733
19745
19756
19765
19773
19783
19793
19804
19811
19825
19831
19844
19854
19863
19871
19881
19895
19906
19919
19922
199319
199420
199519
199615
199710
199818
199930
200020
200119
200210
20034
20046
20059
200610
20076
200816
200925
20109
20119
201213
20139
201412
201512
201610
201710
20186
20198
20207
20217
20227
20236
20244

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 61 years between 1953–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Joel Sussman, b. 1910Yoel Levi, b. 1950July Edelstein, b. 1958Yoel Strick, b. 1966Yoel García, b. 1973Yoel Romero, b. 1977Joel Razvozov, b. 1980Yoel Rozenkier, b. 1986Yoel Rodríguez, b. 1988Yoel Finol, b. 1996

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●

Attested in 57 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Yoel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—10K#140
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.9K#3,984
ER EritreaThe page presents a list of the most popular baby names in Eritrea, published by Names.org.18804K#1
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.9K#1,081
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.6K#501
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2023475#3,136
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—294#3,605
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—236#4,668
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—231#1,342
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024162#580
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020152—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022147—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 474 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yoel?
We estimate roughly 633 thousand people bear Yoel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Yoel have the most bearers?
Yoel is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled joel.
How common is Yoel compared with other names?
In Argentina, Yoel is the 232nd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Yoel a male or female name?
Yoel is a male 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.
What does the name Yoel mean?
Recorded meaning: Joel), borne by a biblical prophet.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Yoel” — the 232nd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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