Girls' name · since 2016
Nafas
Nafas has 18 recorded births since 2016 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #47,178 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,601 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 18
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
18 babies have been named Nafas since 2016, making it today's #16601 girls' name.
Nafas has 18 recorded births among girls since 2016, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16601 as of the latest data, more common than 4% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2016 to 2025.
- #47,178 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,601 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 18 born since 2016
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Nafas ranks #47,178 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,601 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 18 born since 2016, peaking in the 2020s.
- #47,178 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,601 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 18
- born since 2016
- 2020s
- peak decade
Nafas's 18 recorded births place it above 34.45% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Nafas compares
18 7th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Nafas's all-time total is 95% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Nafas | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 18 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 7 | 21 | 19,840 |
Nafas's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Nafas's full recorded timeline at 2022, 67% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 33% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2025, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2022 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Nafas popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2016–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Nafas by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (12 births, 67% of the file).
2020s was Nafas's strongest decade.
12 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Nafas births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 12 births (67% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Nafas: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2022)
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2016–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Nafas draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.