Yaphet
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Yaphet has been given to 266 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1972, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Yaphet, 2021
1 in 565,000
Yaphet over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Yaphet?
Yaphet had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 565,000
- 6 of 3,389,958 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 292,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,624 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Yaphet sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yaphet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Yaphets were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Yaphet was born before 2004 — so the typical Yaphet is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 30.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 261
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (79).
Is Yaphet 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1972 (20)
- Years since peak
- 53
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.8% average annual change
Spellings of Yaphet
Yaphet is not the most common spelling — Japheth is, with 57.1% against Yaphet's 10.7%.
Yaphet around the world
Where Yaphet 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 & Wales2006–2012#4,805in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Yaphet by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Yaphet
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Yaphet
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.