Naftali
given name · Latin script
Meaning: aus der Bibel übernommener männl
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/næftɑɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naftali is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 348K(measured from records)
- NANamibia≈1 in 6.2K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 30K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Namibia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
aus der Bibel übernommener männl.
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naftali 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Naftali | 5 |
| US United States | 1,483 | 1 in 224K | 1.4K | Naftali | 52 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 182K | listed | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 608 | 1 in 348K | 608 | Naftali | 46 |
| NA Namibia | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 1 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 142 | 1 in 122K | 109 | — | 1 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Naftali | 10 |
| AT Austria | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 138K | 6 | — | — |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Naftali is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, Naphtali (mythological son of Jacob)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Naphtali Hirz Wesselyb. 1725DEnot in their usual nameGerman scholar
- Horace Günzburgb. 1833UAnot in their usual nameRussian-Jewish financier (1833-1909)
- Naftali Herz Tur-Sinaib. 1886ILIsraeli bible scholar (1886-1973)
- Naftali Botwinb. 1905PLPolish-Jewish communist (1905–1925)
- Naftali Blumenthalb. 1922ILIsraeli politician (1922–2022)
- Naftali Bezemb. 1924DEGerman-born Israeli painter, muralist and sculptor (1924-2018)
- Alexis Blumb. 1942FRnot in their usual nameFrench rabbi
- Naftali Hershtikb. 1947ILIsraeli singer (1947–2024)
- Anatoly Rakuzinb. 1948RUnot in their usual nameRussian painter (born 1948)
- Naftali Bennettb. 1972ILPrime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 211 | #93,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 154 | #113,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 133 | #120,330 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 75 | #78,394 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Naftali mean, and where does it come from?
- aus der Bibel übernommener männl. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- Is Naftali a male or female name?
- Naftali is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How do you pronounce Naftali?
- A machine transcription gives /næftɑɫi/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- What are other forms of the name Naftali?
- In the etymology graph, Naphtali is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Naftali have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Naftali in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naftali.
- How common is the name Naftali?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,483 people named Naftali in 2020, about 1 in 224 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naftaliThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Naftali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.