Meaning not yet researched.
Jafet: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,967 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,967 in 2001; #2,778 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jafet in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,778 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,967.
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Jafet: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,967 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 68 (2015).
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Jafet, making it the 2,778th most common boys’ name of the year, up 29 places from #2,807 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 46 boys named Jafet in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,967, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 68, in 2015. For comparison, it was #2,076 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jafet in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 10 babies. In all, 1,442 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 522 babies named Jafet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 424 US boys were named Jafet; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jafet ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,153 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Japheth, Japhet and Yaphet are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Japheth (1,387), Japhet (281), Yaphet (266), Jafeth (258), Jaffet (26).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jafet in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,153 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,078 | #1,409 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,177 | #1,264 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 46 | #2,778 |
| 2024 | — | — | 46 | #2,807 |
| 2023 | — | — | 46 | #2,780 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,242 |
| 2021 | — | — | 43 | #2,883 |
| 2020 | — | — | 49 | #2,599 |
| 2019 | — | — | 40 | #3,016 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,405 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,152 |
| 2016 | — | — | 47 | #2,641 |
| 2015 | — | — | 68 | #2,076 |
| 2014 | — | — | 55 | #2,354 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,734 |
| 2012 | — | — | 44 | #2,736 |
| 2011 | — | — | 51 | #2,453 |
| 2010 | — | — | 47 | #2,601 |
| 2009 | — | — | 67 | #2,060 |
| 2008 | — | — | 61 | #2,192 |
| 2007 | — | — | 62 | #2,173 |
| 2006 | — | — | 52 | #2,383 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,449 |
| 2004 | — | — | 52 | #2,222 |
| 2003 | — | — | 40 | #2,562 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,139 |
| 2001 | — | — | 55 | #1,967 |
| 2000 | — | — | 36 | #2,594 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,117 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,759 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #3,950 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,000 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,366 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #6,044 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,127 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,024 |
| 1991 | — | — | 14 | #4,095 |
| 1990 | — | — | 8 | #6,068 |
| 1989 | — | — | 10 | #4,971 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,752 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,263 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).