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Nefertiti

#9,287 in 2025Girls' name

The Beautiful One has Come

Nefertiti has been given to 891 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #9,287 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1980, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Nefertiti, 2025

1 in 301,000

Nefertiti over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nefertiti: meaning, origin, and history

The Beautiful One has Come

Egyptian

What Nefertiti means

Nefertiti means “The Beautiful One has Come”, associated with nfrt-jj.tj.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Egyptian nfrt-jj.tj (literally “The Beautiful One has Come”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Nefertiti (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nefertiti is used in English. Its origins include Egyptian.

Nefertiti comes through Egyptian nfrt-jj.tj.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 891 girls were recorded with the name Nefertiti between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1980; its best national rank was #2,780 in 1980.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,844 in 2020 to #9,287 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,955 in 2015 to #9,287 in 2025.

How common is Nefertiti?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,287
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nefertiti sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nefertiti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nefertitis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nefertiti was born before 1993 — so the typical Nefertiti is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
891
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Choose a decade

1990s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (212).

Is Nefertiti 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
+1,571
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,443
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+668
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
33.3%
Peak was 1980 (33)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,780
1980

Spellings of Nefertiti

Nefertiti is the most-used spelling, taking 60.8% of the 1,466 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Nefertiti is used

Across 1910–2025, Nefertiti was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 386,711 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Nefertiti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nefertiti around the world

Where Nefertiti 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
    2012–2017
    #5,765
    in 2017

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

Nefertiti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,287
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,443
Best rank ever
#2,780
1980
Peak year
1980
33 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
891
Count in 2025
11

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

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Sibling names for Nefertiti

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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