Given name
Neftalí
“my struggle”
Neftalí is a masculine given name. It is used in Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Neftalí goes back to Hebrew נַפְתָּלִי, meaning “my struggle.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Neftalí’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Neftalí
- Neftalí FelizDominican Republic baseball playerborn 1988
- Neftalí SotoPuerto Rican professional baseball playerborn 1989
- Neftalí DíazPanamanian association football playerborn 1971
- Neftalí RiveraOlympic basketball player (1948-2017)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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