Total births
18
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.
- 18
- total births
- 2016–2025
- years on record
- 2020s
- peak decade
- 67%
- born in that decade
Nafas sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 18 recorded since 2016.
Nafas has 18 recorded births among girls since 2016, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, 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.
- 18 total births
- 2016–2025 years on record
- 2020s peak decade
- 67% born in that decade
Data updated Jun 2026
The verdict
18 girls have been named Nafas since 2016, peaking in the 2020s, last recorded in 2025.
- 18
- total births
- 2016–2025
- years on record
- 2020s
- peak decade
- 67%
- born in that decade
2020s
Peak decade
67% of everyone ever named Nafas was born in this single decade.
2022
Single peak year
7 babies were named Nafas in 2022 - its busiest year on record.
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 at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
2022
Current rank
Unranked
Active since
2016
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
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
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).
Frequently Asked Questions
How popular is the name Nafas? ▼
18 babies have been named Nafas since 2016. It was last recorded in 2025. The peak year was 2022 with 7 births.
When was Nafas most popular? ▼
Nafas was most popular in the 2020s decade with 12 total births. The single peak year was 2022.
How long has the name Nafas been used? ▼
Records for Nafas go back to 2016, giving 10 years of history through 2025.
What names are similar to Nafas? ▼
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Nafisa, Nafeesah, Nafeesa, Nafisah, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.
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Data Sources
Data as of June 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).
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NameAlmanac Editorial. "Nafas: Baby Name Since 2016 - 18 Births, Peak 2022." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/nafas. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 June 2026.