Yafet
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yafet is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Eritrea it is the 14th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Indonesian, written in the Latin script.
- EREritrea1 in 99◐
- ETEthiopia1 in 16K
- GYGuyana1 in 28K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 46 ●
- 1 in 28K ◐
across 6 countries
recorded for this name
1.7K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Japheth in NG Nigeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,066△ | 348 rec. | 1 in 312K | 1.1K | Yafet | 46 |
| MX Mexico | — | 612 | 389 rec. | — | 3 | Yafet | 39 |
| ER Eritrea | #14 | 431 | 3 rec. | — | — | Yafet | 7 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | 246 | 162 rec. | — | listed | Yafet | 12 |
| PE Peru | — | 212 | 123 rec. | — | — | Yafet | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 192 | 97 rec. | 1 in 53K | 192 | Yafet | 6 |
| PA Panama | — | 70 | 71 rec. | — | — | Yafet | 4 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 52 | 94 rec. | — | — | Yafet | 7 |
| HN Honduras | — | 42 | 41 rec. | — | — | Yafet | 5 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 40 | 40 rec. | — | — | Yafet | 8 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 34 | 112 rec. | 1 in 150K | 34 | Yafet | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 27 | — | 1 in 28K | 27 | — | — |
Roughly 1.1K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 312K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish1.3K26%
- Indonesian77215%
- English55111%
- Arabic53711%
- Amharic3787%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 1,320 | 26% |
| Indonesian | 772 | 15% |
| English | 551 | 11% |
| Arabic | 537 | 11% |
| Amharic | 378 | 7% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 11 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 18 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 12 |
| 2011 | 21 |
| 2012 | 24 |
| 2013 | 21 |
| 2014 | 22 |
| 2015 | 23 |
| 2016 | 28 |
| 2017 | 19 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 21 |
| 2021 | 17 |
| 2022 | 18 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1997–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 23 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 506 | #20,273 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 224 | #4,413 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 192 | #5,381 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 139 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 128 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 111 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 97 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 84 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 72 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 63 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 58 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 51 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 114 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yafet?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Yafet (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yafet have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Yafet in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yafet.
- How common is Yafet compared with other names?
- In Eritrea, Yafet is the 14th most common given name of 73 given names recorded there.
- Is Yafet a male or female name?
- Yafet is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yafetThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yafet” — the 14th most common given name in Eritrea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.