Yafet — #13007 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Yafet

The Social Security Administration has registered 429 babies named Yafet between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Yafet currently holds the #13007 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 28 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Yafet performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 201 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Yafet shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Yafet in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Yafet 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 429 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.