Jephte
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jephte is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew, meaning 'liberated'.
- HTHaiti≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 23K
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Haiti, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Hebrew, meaning 'liberated'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jephte counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #539 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | 1 | Jephte | 11 |
| HT Haiti | #251 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Jephte | 7 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Jephte | 9 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Jephte | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Jephte | 12 |
| CF Central African Republic | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | — | 4 |
| US United States | — | 225 | 1 in 1.5M | 217 | Jephte | 59 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jephté Bastienb. 1953CACanadian filmmaker
- Brian Bayeyeb. 2000FRnot in their usual nameDR Congolese and French footballer (born 2000)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 217 | #35,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 8 | #35,667 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 5 | — |
| CF Central African Republic | ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #19 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jephte mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hebrew, meaning 'liberated'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Jephte a male or female name?
- Jephte 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.
- In which country does Jephte have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Jephte in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jephte.
- How common is the name Jephte?
- In the United States, the national register counted 225 people named Jephte in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Jephte compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Jephte is the 539th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jephteThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Jephte” — the 539th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.