Japhet — #12715 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Japhet

The Social Security Administration has registered 270 babies named Japhet between 1979 and 2024, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Japhet currently holds the #12715 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Japhet performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 101 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Japhet shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Japhet in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Japhet 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 270 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.