Yaphet
The Story of Yaphet
Yaphet first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1971, with 9 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1972: 20 births, good for #2,019 nationwide. About 30% of every Yaphet on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Yaphet last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 6 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 261 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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About the name Yaphet
Yaphet is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1971 and has accumulated 261 births in the dataset. Yaphet's peak popularity came in 1972 when it ranked #2,019. Use the chart and map above to compare Yaphet's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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