Yael is a biblical Hebrew name, that derived from ‘Ya’el’. This name was originally the Hebrew word for an ibex, a goat species of mountainous areas. Its name translates to ‘He shall ascend’, although Yael was originally a female name.
Yael is a first name for all genders.
Few children have been named Yael in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 9 out of 100,000 children are currently called Yael. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Yael at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Yael is number *** on the list of most common first names.
Yael is a biblical Hebrew name, that derived from ‘Ya’el’. This name was originally the Hebrew word for an ibex, a goat species of mountainous areas. Its name translates to ‘He shall ascend’, although Yael was originally a female name.
Yael is one of the most... popular names for girls in Israel today.
In fact, the name Yael did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Yael seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,415, 390 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Yael, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yael was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of given names are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.
With four letters, the name Yael is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.6% of all first names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial.
If your name is Yael and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yael, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yael
Yael
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
A
E
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
A
E
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yael sounds like this:
