Neftali
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to boys 85.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 64 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,290since 1953
Neftali over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #2,765 | 46 |
| 2024 | — | #4,200 | 25 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,952 | 42 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,873 | 44 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,074 | 39 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,275 | 23 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,897 | 42 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,171 | 36 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,006 | 39 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,518 | 50 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,966 | 39 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #2,805 | 42 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | #9,150 | 12 | #2,798 | 42 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #3,128 | 36 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #2,161 | 62 |
| 2007 | #6,323 | 21 | #2,213 | 60 |
| 2006 | #7,482 | 16 | #2,375 | 52 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #2,206 | 54 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 | #2,208 | 52 |
| 2003 | #5,795 | 20 | #1,739 | 70 |
| 2002 | #5,444 | 21 | #2,068 | 52 |
| 2001 | #6,067 | 18 | #1,982 | 54 |
| 2000 | #5,705 | 19 | #1,742 | 64 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #2,263 | 40 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #1,833 | 54 |
| 1997 | #4,660 | 22 | #1,580 | 64 |
| 1996 | #4,739 | 21 | #1,958 | 45 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #1,955 | 43 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 | #2,509 | 29 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #2,002 | 39 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 | #2,128 | 34 |
| 1989 | — | #1,993 | 36 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #1,989 | 32 |
| 1987 | — | #2,020 | 30 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #2,226 | 25 |
| 1985 | — | #1,834 | 32 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,933 | 28 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,864 | 29 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,166 | 24 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,418 | 20 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,110 | 25 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,788 | 31 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,834 | 28 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,270 | 20 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,417 | 18 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,832 | 25 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,928 | 22 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,158 | 18 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,987 | 21 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,794 | 24 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,308 | 14 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,576 | 11 | |
| 1967 | — | #2,242 | 13 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,327 | 12 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,270 | 13 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,975 | 17 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,848 | 9 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,242 | 14 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,414 | 12 | |
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| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #3,201 | 7 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Neftali! It came in at #3,798, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1958, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Neftali
- 1,435 spots since 2024 (#4,200 → #2,765)
- 1,510 spots since 2020 (#4,275 → #2,765)
- 201 spots since 2015 (#2,966 → #2,765)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1997 at #1,580 (64 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,219 boys born in 2003 were named Neftali (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,580 in 1997, was only 1 in 29,455 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.5% of all boys named Neftali (584) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 41 | #2,414 (1959) | #3,043 |
| 1960s | 118 | #1,975 (1964) | #2,531 |
| 1970s | 225 | #1,788 (1979) | #2,037 |
| 1980s | 281 | #1,834 (1985) | #2,055 |
| 1990s | 415 | #1,580 (1997) | #2,076 |
| 2000s | 584 | #1,739 (2003) | #2,081 |
| 2010s | 407 | #2,518 (2016) | #2,900 |
| 2020s | 219 | #2,765 (2025) | #3,357 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Neftali in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
Top boys' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 91,357 of them was named Neftali, which outranked 68.6% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,586Zanna21
- #5,586Zanya21
- #5,586Zenobia21
- #5,795Neftali20
- #5,795Aariana20
- #5,795Adelisa20
- #5,795Adella20
- #6,055Abbegail19
- #6,055Abegail19
- #6,055Abi19
Tied with 259 names at #5,795; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,975,349 boys got a published name in 2003; 1 in 28,219 of them was named Neftali, which outranked 86.4% of the 12,761 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,717Tyriq71
- #1,717Zacchaeus71
- #1,717Zayden71
- #1,739Neftali70
- #1,739Brando70
- #1,739Issiah70
- #1,739Jarius70
- #1,749Cameren69
- #1,749Creed69
- #1,749Forest69
Tied with 9 names at #1,739; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.