Neftali
About 2,677 American babies have been named Neftali since 1953, most of them around 2003. In 2025 it ranked 2,765th. About 2,600 Neftalis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Neftali boys named Neftali
Girls and boys called Neftali
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Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 387 girls and 2,290 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 7 to 46.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 46 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,677
- Estimated living today
- 2,600
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2003
- Best rank
- 1,739th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,765th
- First recorded
- 1953
- Girls / boys
- 387 / 2,290
How old the living Neftalis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,677 babies given the name since 1953, about 2,600 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 830 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Neftalis
- Neftalí Feliz (born 1988)Dominican Republic baseball player
People named Neftali with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Neftali is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Neftali is most concentrated in California (4.4×), Texas (3.1×), New York (2.8×), Florida (1.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2003
The most popular boys’ names the year Neftali peaked:
Where Neftali lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 792 men called Neftali were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| León | Neftali | 39 | 0.179 | 443 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Neftali | 93 | 0.174 | 571 |
| Burgos | Neftali | 18 | 0.099 | 650 |
| Granada | Neftali | 45 | 0.097 | 612 |
| Palmas, Las | Neftali | 55 | 0.095 | 954 |
| Salamanca | Neftali | 15 | 0.094 | 618 |
Listed in 37 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 15 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Neftali against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.