Jafeth
Boy · Hebrew
Jafeth is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “enlarged”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Jafeth mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Japheth
“enlarged”
A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
Meaning borrowed from Japheth. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Jafeth a girl's or a boy's name?
Jafeth is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jafeth in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,442among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Jafeth, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 23 boys. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the boys named Jafeth in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Jafeth in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 12 | #6,827 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,733 |
| 2022 | 23 | #4,438 |
| 2021 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2020 | 8 | #8,734 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,314 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,062 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,899 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,220 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,530 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,385 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,332 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 5 | #9,905 |
Names like Jafeth
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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