Nafis — boys' name

What the Data Says About Nafis

The Social Security Administration has registered 538 babies named Nafis between 1976 and 2022, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Nafis currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nafis performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Nafis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 256 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Nafis in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nafis 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 538 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.