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Naftali

#2,379 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Naphtali

Naftali has been given to 2,024 babies in the U.S. since 1951. In 2025 it ranked #2,379 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Naftali, 2025

1 in 57,200

Naftali over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naftali: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Naphtali

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naftali means

Naftali is a form of Naphtali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Naftali → Naphtali. The family’s meaning is “my struggle, my strife”, recorded in the naming reference for Naphtali.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Naphtali.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,024 boys were recorded with the name Naftali between 1951 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,830 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,108 in 2020 to #2,379 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,268 in 2015 to #2,379 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.

How common is Naftali?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 57,200
58 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 29,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,379
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
39,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naftali 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 39,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naftali. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naftalis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naftali was born before 2009 — so the typical Naftali is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,024
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (550).

Is Naftali 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
−306
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−271
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−111
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.98×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
69.9%
Peak was 2018 (83)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,830
2018

Spellings of Naftali

Naftali is not the most common spelling — Neftali is, with 33.2% against Naftali's 29.3%.

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 Naftali is used

Across 1910–2025, Naftali was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 12,939 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 10,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 16,667
  3. 3Maryland1 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. Naftali has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Naftali around the world

Where Naftali ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1994–1994
    #2,878
    in 1994
  • Canada
    2006–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Naftali

People whose public names include Naftali, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Naftali in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Naftali. Linked forms have their own page here.

NaftoliNeftaliNaphtaliNeftalí

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Naftali by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,379
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 271
Best rank ever
#1,830
2018
Peak year
2018
83 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,024
Count in 2025
58

Names similar to Naftali

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

NaftuliNeftaliNaftoliNaftulaNafisDenaliKhaliWaliNaphtaliKaliNaftulyCaliAmiraliMuhammadaliGhaliJabaliKamaliNafeesNephtaliVitaliMaliMohamedaliNickaliAbdulwali

Names with a curve like Naftali

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Naftali, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

SimchaEliottNaeemGiorgioKekoaCaineIssaAjJeronimoYehoshuaShalomAharon

Sibling names for Naftali

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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