Neftali
Neftali is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 200370 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1953
- 2,623people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,243 boys have been named Neftali in the United States since 1953, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2003, with 70 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 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 26%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 380 girls have also been given it, 14% of the total.
By decade
In 2003, its biggest year
Neftali was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2003 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Andrew. See all of 2003.
Names that rose and fell with Neftali
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Erickpeak 2007
- Mathieupeak 2000
- Paolopeak 2007
- Javierpeak 2001
- Eliudpeak 2000
- Gamalielpeak 2004
- Noepeak 2007
- Marcospeak 2001
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.