Given name & surname
Yule
“daughter of Christmastime”·“born during the winter solstice”
Yule is used as a given name and a surname. Interpretations include “daughter of Christmastime” (English) and “born during the winter solstice” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Interpretations include “daughter of Christmastime” (English) and “born during the winter solstice” (English). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
From Middle English yol, from Old English ġeōl (“Christmas, Yule”), from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2014. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Yule connects to the Julia name family through Yulia. The history of Julia gives this family its wider story. Julia’s historical associations include numerous early saints.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Yule through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 5 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 149 as a first name in 2020; 1,107 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yule’s family of names
Yule has a related form in Yulia. Yule has a related form in Yul. Yule has a related form in Yool.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Yuliavariant
- Yulvariant
- Yuillevariant · English
- Yuillvariant · English
- Yoolevariant
- Yoolvariant
- Yuwelvariant
- Yuwellvariant
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Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yule
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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