Yuval
From Hebrew, where it means stream or brook. Fewer than 700 people in Poland carry it, split fairly evenly between women and men, so most Poles will never meet one.
Yuval Pronunciation
What Yuval means
Where Yuval comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yuval comes from Hebrew, where it names a stream or a brook, in Polish a strumień or a rzeka. The word sits close to yovel, the ram's horn whose blast once announced the jubilee year. In the book of Genesis a man called Yuval, rendered Jubal in many translations, is named as the ancestor of everyone who plays the harp and the pipe. So running water and music met early in one short Hebrew word.
In modern Israel Yuval belongs to girls and boys alike, one of the names that crossed the line between them without changing shape. It has no diminutives and no variants to speak of. You take it whole.
A Polish family might meet the name through an Israeli friend or a film, then write it on a form at the urząd exactly as it sounds. The meaning stays plain. Yuval is water in motion, a strumień that keeps going.
How many people are named Yuval
1 in 48404 men in Poland is named Yuval. 681 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1138 among male names.
Yuval's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Yuval as a middle name
Yuval is a first name for 681 men in Poland and a middle name for another 9, a 99/1 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3449th, between Yun (9) and Zafer (9).
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#3447 Yulian9
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#3448 Yun9
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#3449 Yuval9
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#3450 Zafer9
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#3451 Zdenek9