Yaphet
Last seen for girls in 1972 at #8,292 · Last seen for boys in 2021 at #10,799
Given to boys 98.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1972 · 20 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 261since 1971
Yaphet over time
Rank among boys' names. Yaphet has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
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| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | — | #10,799 | 6 | |
| 2020 | — | #12,022 | 5 | |
| 2019 | — | #8,889 | 8 | |
| 2018 | — | #9,670 | 7 | |
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | #7,605 | 10 | |
| 2015 | — | #8,040 | 9 | |
| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | — | #9,655 | 7 | |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | — | #8,139 | 9 | |
| 2009 | — | #6,436 | 13 | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | — | #6,262 | 13 | |
| 2006 | — | #5,781 | 14 | |
| 2005 | — | #11,472 | 5 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,143 | 8 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,258 | 11 | |
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| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #9,112 | 6 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | — | #9,265 | 5 | |
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| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
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| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,386 | 11 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,946 | 13 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,513 | 15 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #2,020 | 20 |
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yaphet! It came in at #3,370, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1974–1975, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Yaphet is popular in 1971
No state had 5 or more boys named Yaphet in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Yaphet
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2021
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1972 at #2,020 (20 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 81,080 boys born in 1972 were named Yaphet (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 291,580 boys born in 2021 (0.00%)
- 30.3% of all boys named Yaphet (79) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 79 | #2,020 (1972) | #3,503 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 27 | #6,843 (1998) | #7,754 |
| 2000s | 76 | #5,781 (2006) | #7,838 |
| 2010s | 68 | #6,626 (2012) | #8,668 |
| 2020s | 11 | #10,799 (2021) | #11,411 |
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.
Yaphet in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 196,494 of them was named Yaphet, which outranked 40.4% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,146Winthrop10
- #3,146Wray10
- #3,146Zebedee10
- #3,370Yaphet9
- #3,370Able9
- #3,370Aden9
- #3,370Adi9
- #3,658Aaren8
- #3,658Abu8
- #3,658Adarryl8
Tied with 287 names at #3,370; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.