Nephtali
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Oran; Naftali
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/neptali/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Nephtali is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 1.9M(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 49K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 420K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Oran; Naftali
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nephtali 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 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Nephtali | 3 |
| US United States | 355 | 1 in 937K | 308 | Nephtali | 98 |
| PH Philippines | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 416K | — | Nephtali | 13 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 978K | — | Nephtali | 4 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Nephtali | 7 |
| CL Chile | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 584K | 1 | Nephtali | 13 |
| HN Honduras | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 491K | — | Nephtali | 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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 308 | #26,290 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 47 | #26,290 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2005 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1997 | 6 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nephtali mean, and where does it come from?
- Oran; Naftali Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Nephtali?
- In Spanish /neptali/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Nephtali a male or female name?
- Nephtali is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Nephtali have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Nephtali in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nephtali.
- How common is the name Nephtali?
- In the United States, the national register counted 355 people named Nephtali in 2020, about 1 in 937 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nephtaliThe 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, “Nephtali”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.