Yafet
A boys’ name of Hebrew origin, meaning handsome, beautiful.
Babies a year
19
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5137
3 babies
Yafet by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Yafet. In the US, 19 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 28 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Yafet. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean beauty
Like Yafet, each of these has beauty in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Kevinhandsome at birth3,813 in the US (2017)
- Finleyfair-haired warrior1,733 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mackenzieson of the fair one; surname used as given name2,976 in the US (2017)
- Jadejade stone; symbol of virtue and beauty2,765 in the US (2017)
- Beauhandsome487 in England and Wales (2025)
- Alanfair or handsome2,441 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Yafet
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