Yareli
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Meaning
modern Latin American coinage, no ancient etymology
The story
Yareli has the honesty of a modern name whose exact origin remains open. It is used in Latin American Spanish and may be an elaboration of Yara, but the evidence does not support a confident ancient translation. Mexican actor and writer Yareli Arizmendi gives it a vivid public life. She played Rosaura in Como agua para chocolate, then co-wrote and starred in Un día sin mexicanos, a satire imagining California after its Latino population suddenly disappears. Arizmendi and her collaborators drew on immigrant experience and used comedy to ask who keeps a society working while remaining unseen. Her films do not solve the name's etymology or explain why any family chose it. They offer something more truthful than a decorative legend: a bearer who carried Yareli across languages, stages, and screens. Some names arrive with centuries of documentation. Others gather their history in public, one life and one story at a time.
How popular is Yareli around the world?
In the United States, 2,222 babies were named Yareli between 2020 and 2025. In Mexico City, there were 54 registrations of Yareli in 2022.
Yareli is on the official records of the United States, Mexico City, Chile, Argentina and Spain.
United States
1 in 9,800
In the United States, 2,222 babies were named Yareli between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Yareli peaked in the 2000s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Mexico City City
1 in 2,200
In Mexico City, there were 54 registrations of Yareli in 2022.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Chile
1 in 13,000
In Chile, 14 girls were registered as Yareli in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Argentina
1 in 13,000
In Argentina, 50 newborns were given the name Yareli in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Spain
1 in 140,000
In Spain, 324 residents are named Yareli, ranked 3,120th among women, with a mean age of 10.6 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Not on the record in Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Yareli
Most people given the name Yareli in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Yareli deep dive
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