Jafet — #2806 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jafet

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,396 babies named Jafet between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jafet currently holds the #2806 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 68 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jafet performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 522 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jafet shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 309 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Jafet in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jafet in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,396 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.