Jafet
Jafet is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 46 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 460.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201568 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1986
- 1,396people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,396 boys have been named Jafet in the United States since 1986, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 68 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2000s alone account for 37%.
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Jafet was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Jafet
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Amadoupeak 2008
- Ibrahimapeak 2002
- Kylonpeak 2016
- Kanyonpeak 2007
- Ashtonpeak 2004
- Rohanpeak 2004
- Mamadoupeak 2024
- Asaelpeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.