Jafet Boy
How popular is Jafet?
#2,764 boy name in 2025
46 baby boys were named Jafet in the US in 2025, making it the 2764th most popular boy name.
Jafet popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #2,764 for boys (▲ 25 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 46 boys |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-32% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,068 in 2015, #2,585 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2015 (68 boys) |
| Highest rank | #1,956 in 2001 |
| First recorded | 1986 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.0% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Jafet counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jafet family of names ranked #1,963 for boys in 2025 (#2,101 the year before), with 57 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Jafet | 46 | 81% |
| Japhet | 11 | 19% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Jafet is most popular
Babies named Jafet per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (24 boys)
- Texas: 0.0 per 1,000 (37 boys)
- California: 0.0 per 1,000 (35 boys)
- New York: 0.0 per 1,000 (5 boys)
Jafet by decade
Boy names about as popular as Jafet
Questions
- Is Jafet a boy or girl name?
- Jafet is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Jafet were boys.
- How popular is the name Jafet?
- 46 baby boys were named Jafet in the US in 2025, making it the 2764th most popular boy name.
- When was Jafet most popular?
- Jafet peaked in 2015, when 68 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,956 in 2001.
- How many people are named Jafet?
- 1,442 babies have been named Jafet in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,424 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 16.
- Where is Jafet most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Jafet was most common in Florida, at 0.1 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.