The name Yareli is a modern Spanish name, inspired by the Tupi name Iara. It means ‘lady of the water’, and in Brazilian folklore, Iara is a river nymph who would lure men into the water.
Yareli is a first name for girls.
The name Yareli isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Yareli ranks 662. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Yareli. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yareli.
The name Yareli is a modern Spanish name, inspired by the Tupi name Iara. It means ‘lady of the water’, and in Brazilian folklore, Iara is a river nymph who would lure men into the water.
The Tupi people... were one of the largest groups of indigenous Brazilians before its colonization, beginning in the 16th century.
Yareli is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Yareli cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #484 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2009. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Yareli, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Yareli seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yareli was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
431 babies were named Yareli in 2022 - that's 1 in 343,926 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Yareli ranked 609 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Yareli is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.
If your name is Yareli 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 Yareli, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Apple
Rocket
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yareli
Yareli
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
A
R
E
L
I
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
R
E
L
I
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. Yareli sounds like this:
