How Many People Are Named Yale?
people named Yale are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 450,309 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,416 babies named Yale in Social Security records from 1908 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
29 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a Welsh surname which was itself derived from a place name meaning "fertile upland" (from Welsh ial).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Yale in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Yale alive today is about 47 years old, and 44% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 30 and 64 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Yale first appears in the records in 1908 and was given most often in 1929, to 29 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1908 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Yale has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,302, in 1916.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,302 (1916) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,659 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Yale alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Yale were born in California than in any other state: about 9 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Yale was given about 9.7 times as often in New York.
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