Given name
Yaphet
“a hahdsome man”
Yaphet is used as a given name. One Hebrew interpretation is “a hahdsome man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “a hahdsome man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yaphet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 266
- 261 boys · 5 girls
- Most popular year
- 1972
- 25 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −80%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2021. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 291 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yaphet’s family of names
Yaphet has a related form in Yapheth. Yaphet has a related form in Yaphethe. Yaphet has a related form in Yaphett.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yaphet
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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