Yoel
A Hebrew name meaning "Yahweh is God," carried in Jewish tradition. Fewer than 70 people in Poland use it, all of them men, so most Poles will never meet a Yoel.
Yoel Pronunciation
Yoel is pronounced ih-O-el (/ɨˈɔɛl/).
What Yoel means
Where Yoel comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yoel comes from Hebrew, and it is built from two words for the divine. Yah stands in for Yahweh, the name of God. El is the old Semitic word for God, the same El that ends Michael, Gabriel, and Daniel. Together the two pieces make a short sentence: Yahweh is God.
The name belongs to the Hebrew Bible. Yoel was a prophet, and the short book under his name sits among the twelve minor prophets. English and Polish tradition usually spell the same name Joel. Yoel keeps the Hebrew shape.
The meaning works as a claim rather than an ornament. It says who God is in two syllables.
Picture a class register in a Polish school. Yoel stands among the Jakubs and Szymons, unusual on the page. The form stays close to its root, and the root still reads: Yahweh is God.
How many people are named Yoel
1 in 313915 men in Poland is named Yoel. 68 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4416 among male names.
Yoel as a middle name
Yoel is a first name for 68 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 70/30 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1582nd, between Yacov (29) and Zbisław (29).
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#1580 Włodzisław29
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#1581 Yacov29
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#1582 Yoel29
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#1583 Zbisław29
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#1584 Abdallah28