Naftuli
Naftuli was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,916 among boys’ names; 669 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Naftuli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Naftuli?
#3,916 among boys’ names, 2025
Naftuli rose from #4,246 in 2015 to #3,916 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 16.4 per million.
46 babies in 2005, the peak
Naftuli peaked in 2005, when 46 boys were given it, #2,479 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,916 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 29 | #3,860 | 16.8 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,420 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 30 | #3,740 | 17.2 |
| 2021 | 31 | #3,620 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 33 | #3,389 | 19.1 |
| 2019 | 33 | #3,466 | 18.4 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,953 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,295 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 33 | #3,410 | 17.4 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,246 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 29 | #3,662 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,106 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,637 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,068 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,789 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,694 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,489 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,862 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 31 | #3,427 | 15.1 |
| 2005 | 46 | #2,479 | 23.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,676 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,574 | 5.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,208 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,290 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,947 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,919 | 4.7 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,088 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,535 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,188 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,701 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,376 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,156 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Naftuli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Naftuli has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Naftuli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Naftuli, and how old are they?
An estimated 661 Americans named Naftuli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 447 people named Naftuli (6 women and girls, 441 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 497 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Naftuli born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 452 | not ranked | 11.1× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Naftuli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Naftuli is most over-represented in New York: since 1991 it was given 11.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Naftuli with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,388 babies since 1880, Naftuli is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 103 babies (27%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Naftuli
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Naftuli and names like it
- Compare Naftuli and NaftaliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNaftuli peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Naftuli since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Naftuli.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Naftuli alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.