Given name
Yoel
“Jehovah is God; God is willing”·“jehovah is God; God is willing”
Yoel is a form of Joel. One Hebrew interpretation is “jehovah is God; God is willing.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In Hebrew use, Yoel carries the interpretation “Jehovah is God; God is willing.” Yoel is a form of Joel. One Hebrew interpretation is “jehovah is God; God is willing.”
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
How it developed
Yoel is used as a form of Joel.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yoel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 4,227
- 4,227 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 180 babies
- 2025
- 103
- #1,643 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −16%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 103 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,643 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 16.1% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 180 in 2019. In 2025, New York had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (37). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 4,884 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yoel’s family of names
In English usage, Yoel has a related form in Joel. Yoel is a form of Joel. In Breton usage, Yoel has a conventional equivalent in the French form Joël.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yoel
- Yoel RomeroCuban mixed martial artist and wrestler (born 1977)
- Yoel RodríguezSpanish footballerborn 1988
- Yoel FinolVenezuelan boxerborn 1996
- Yoel RazvozovIsraeli politician and former judokaborn 1980
- Yoel GarcíaCuban athletics competitor (born 1973)
- Yoel ZussmanIsraeli judge1910–1982
- Yoel LeviIsraeli conductorborn 1950
- Yoel HassonIsraeli politicianborn 1973
- Yoel MatveyevSoviet poet (born 1976)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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