Neftali
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to boys 85.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 64 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,290since 1953
Neftali over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #2,765 | 46 |
| 2024 | — | #4,200 | 25 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,952 | 42 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,873 | 44 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,074 | 39 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,275 | 23 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,897 | 42 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,171 | 36 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,006 | 39 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,518 | 50 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,966 | 39 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #2,805 | 42 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #3,128 | 36 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #2,161 | 62 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | #2,213 | 60 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #2,375 | 52 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #2,206 | 54 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #2,208 | 52 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #1,739 | 70 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #2,068 | 52 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | #1,982 | 54 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #1,742 | 64 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #2,263 | 40 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #1,833 | 54 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | #1,580 | 64 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | #1,958 | 45 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #1,955 | 43 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | #2,509 | 29 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #2,002 | 39 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | — | #1,993 | 36 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,989 | 32 |
| 1987 | — | #2,020 | 30 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #2,226 | 25 |
| 1985 | — | #1,834 | 32 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,933 | 28 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,864 | 29 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,166 | 24 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,418 | 20 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,110 | 25 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,788 | 31 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,834 | 28 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,270 | 20 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,417 | 18 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,832 | 25 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,928 | 22 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,987 | 21 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,794 | 24 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,308 | 14 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,327 | 12 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,270 | 13 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,975 | 17 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,848 | 9 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,242 | 14 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,414 | 12 | |
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| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1953
The first year at least five boys were named Neftali! It came in at #3,798, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1958, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 1,435 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #2,765)
- 1,510 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #2,765)
- 201 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #2,765)
Rise & fade · boys
44 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1997 at #1,580 (64 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 23 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 28,219
- Highest: 1 in 28,219 boys born in 2003 were named Neftali (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,580 in 1997, was only 1 in 29,455 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 25.5% of all boys named Neftali (584) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 41 | #2,414 (1959) | #3,043 |
| 1960s | 118 | #1,975 (1964) | #2,531 |
| 1970s | 225 | #1,788 (1979) | #2,037 |
| 1980s | 281 | #1,834 (1985) | #2,055 |
| 1990s | 415 | #1,580 (1997) | #2,076 |
| 2000s | 584 | #1,739 (2003) | #2,081 |
| 2010s | 407 | #2,518 (2016) | #2,900 |
| 2020s | 219 | #2,765 (2025) | #3,357 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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