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Jafet

#2,777 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Japheth

Jafet has been given to 1,442 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #2,777 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Jafet, 2025

1 in 72,100

Jafet over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jafet: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Japheth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jafet means

Jafet is a form of Japheth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jafet → Japheth → Iafeth → יֶפֶת. The family’s proposed meaning is “beautiful, pretty, handsome”, recorded in Hebrew.

Origin, language, and formation

Jafet is used in Faroese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Japheth.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Jafet is pronounced /xaˈfet/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,442 boys were recorded with the name Jafet between 1986 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,963 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,598 in 2020 to #2,777 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,076 in 2015 to #2,777 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jafet?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 72,100
46 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 37,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,777
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
49,955 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jafet sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 49,955 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jafet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jafets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jafet was born before 2010 — so the typical Jafet is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,442
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (522).

Is Jafet rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+30
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−179
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−701
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.6%
Peak was 2015 (68)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,963
2001

Spellings of Jafet

Jafet is not the most common spelling — James is, with 88.8% against Jafet's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jafet is used

Across 1910–2025, Jafet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 108,878 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7New York1 in —
  8. 8Tennessee1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jafet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jafet by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,777
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 179
Best rank ever
#1,963
2001
Peak year
2015
68 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,442
Count in 2025
46

Names similar to Jafet

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jafet

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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