Naphtali — #11188 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Naphtali

The Social Security Administration has registered 265 babies named Naphtali between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Naphtali currently holds the #11188 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 15 babies received it in a single year. Naphtali is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 83 additional births since 1981.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Naphtali performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 76 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Naphtali 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 Naphtali in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Naphtali 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 265 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.