girls:
5 births since 1972
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
261 births since 1971
#4325 (6th percentile)
overall:
266 births since 1971
#7473 (3rd percentile)
The name Yaphet is the #7,473 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 266 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 3.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,325 (5.6% percentile) for all time with 261 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1972.
Yaphet first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1972 for girls). Birth data for Yaphet is available in 29 out of the 51 years between 1971 and 2021 (29 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Yaphet has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yaphet reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #646) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Yaphet reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #743) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yaphet".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Yaphet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Yaphet is pronounced as YAH-feht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YA-feht, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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