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Nephi

#10,368 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Nephi has been given to 730 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #10,368 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Nephi, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nephi: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nephi means

Nephi is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 730 boys were recorded with the name Nephi between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 2007; its best national rank was #2,329 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,358 in 2020 to #10,368 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,308 in 2015 to #10,368 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 Nephi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,368
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nephi 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nephi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nephis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nephi was born before 1996 — so the typical Nephi is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
679
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (160).

Is Nephi 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
+228
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,010
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,060
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.9%
Peak was 2007 (26)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,329
1974

Spellings of Nephi

Nephi is not the most common spelling — Mekhi is, with 90.0% against Nephi's 5.3%.

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 Nephi is used

Across 1910–2025, Nephi was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 168,858 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 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. Nephi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nephi by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,368
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,010
Best rank ever
#2,329
1974
Peak year
2007
26 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
730
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Nephi

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

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Sibling names for Nephi

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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