Meaning not yet researched.
Neftali: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 46 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,595 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,595 in 1997; #2,785 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Neftali in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,785 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,595.
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Neftali: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 46 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,595 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 70 (2003).
In 2025, 46 US boys were named Neftali, making it the 2,785th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,508 places from #4,293 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 25 boys named Neftali in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,595, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 70, in 2003. For comparison, it was #3,009 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Neftali, making it the 12,815th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #4,776, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 22. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Neftali in 71 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1953 with 5 babies. In all, 2,677 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 764 babies named Neftali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 386 US boys were named Neftali; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 37,132 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Neftali ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,477 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Naftali (2,024 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Neftaly, Naftoli and Naphtali are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Neftaly (541), Naftoli (460), Naphtali (354), Nephtali (138).
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 Neftali 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 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,477 | #2,304 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,815 | 46 | #2,785 |
| 2024 | — | — | 25 | #4,293 |
| 2023 | — | — | 42 | #2,986 |
| 2022 | — | — | 44 | #2,901 |
| 2021 | — | — | 39 | #3,104 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,378 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,925 |
| 2018 | — | — | 36 | #3,215 |
| 2017 | — | — | 39 | #3,052 |
| 2016 | — | — | 50 | #2,541 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #3,009 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,465 | 42 | #2,836 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,704 | 39 | #2,935 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,109 | 42 | #2,856 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,566 | 42 | #2,836 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,133 | 36 | #3,162 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,342 | 64 | #2,136 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,319 | 62 | #2,176 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,490 | 60 | #2,228 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,755 | 52 | #2,390 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,060 | 54 | #2,228 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,720 | 52 | #2,229 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,977 | 70 | #1,747 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,619 | 52 | #2,082 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,239 | 54 | #1,999 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,876 | 64 | #1,752 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,592 | 40 | #2,292 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,890 | 54 | #1,843 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,776 | 64 | #1,595 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,835 | 45 | #1,980 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,381 | 43 | #1,979 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,225 | 38 | #2,161 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,372 | 29 | #2,558 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,530 | 39 | #2,029 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,121 | 29 | #2,448 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,002 | 34 | #2,151 |
| 1989 | — | — | 36 | #2,018 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,224 | 32 | #2,023 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,044 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,460 | 25 | #2,271 |
| 1985 | — | — | 32 | #1,856 |
| 1984 | — | — | 28 | #1,959 |
| 1983 | — | — | 29 | #1,890 |
| 1982 | — | — | 24 | #2,193 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,471 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,154 |
| 1979 | — | — | 31 | #1,820 |
| 1978 | — | — | 28 | #1,857 |
| 1977 | — | — | 20 | #2,331 |
| 1976 | — | — | 18 | #2,476 |
| 1975 | — | — | 18 | #2,419 |
| 1974 | — | — | 25 | #1,873 |
| 1973 | — | — | 22 | #1,966 |
| 1972 | — | — | 18 | #2,218 |
| 1971 | — | — | 21 | #2,028 |
| 1970 | — | — | 24 | #1,833 |
| 1969 | — | — | 14 | #2,382 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,686 |
| 1967 | — | — | 13 | #2,313 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,418 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,339 |
| 1964 | — | — | 17 | #2,020 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,904 |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,991 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,306 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #3,018 |
| 1959 | — | — | 12 | #2,501 |
| 1956 | — | — | 10 | #2,739 |
| 1955 | — | — | 7 | #3,409 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,372 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,187 |
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).