Given name
Yul
“daughter of Christmastime”·“born during the winter solstice”
Yul is a variant of Yule. Interpretations include “daughter of Christmastime” (English) and “born during the winter solstice” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yul is a variant of Yule. Interpretations include “daughter of Christmastime” (English) and “born during the winter solstice” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yul is a variant of Yule. An origin associated with Yule is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1957. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yul through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 674
- 674 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1960
- 32 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,865 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,865 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 32 in 1960. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 682 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.
Yul’s family of names
Yul has a related form in Yule. In Cornish usage, Yul has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Juliusz.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yul
- Yul EdochieNigerian actorborn 1982
- Yul VazquezCuban actorborn 1965
- Heo YoolSouth Korean actressborn 2009
- Yul BürkleVenezuelan actorborn 1974
- Kwon YulSouth Korean actorborn 1982
- Yul MoldauerAmerican artistic gymnastborn 1996
- Heo Yoolassociation football player (2001-)
- Yul KwonAmerican reality television contestantborn 1975
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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