Naftuli

#3,916 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Naftuli has been given to 669 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #3,916 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Naftuli, 2025

1 in 118,000

Naftuli over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Naftuli?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 61,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,916
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naftuli 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 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naftuli. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naftulis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naftuli was born before 2014 — so the typical Naftuli is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
669
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.2% of all recorded uses (249).

Is Naftuli 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
−56
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−527
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+330
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.9%
Peak was 2005 (46)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,479
2005

Spellings of Naftuli

Naftuli is not the most common spelling — Neftali is, with 46.0% against Naftuli's 13.4%.

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 Naftuli is used

Across 1910–2025, Naftuli was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 39,668 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Naftuli has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Naftuli around the world

Where Naftuli 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
    2005–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Naftuli by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,916
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 527
Best rank ever
#2,479
2005
Peak year
2005
46 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
669
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Naftuli

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

Sibling names for Naftuli

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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