Jephthah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Jephthah is listed as a hero of faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews, though his story serves as a complex theological narrative regarding the binding nature of vows and the moral ambiguity of the Judg
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ʄephθɑh/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Jephthah is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 57Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 83K
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.5M
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Jephthah is listed as a hero of faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews, though his story serves as a complex theological narrative regarding the binding nature of vows and the moral ambiguity of the Judges period.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jephthah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Jephthah | 45 |
| GH Ghana | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Jephthah | 22 |
| PH Philippines | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Jephthah | 13 |
| US United States | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 5 | Jephthah | 90 |
| LR Liberia | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Jephthah | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 9 | 1 in 83K | 9 | Jephthah | 1 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jephthah is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
He opens or God opens
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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.
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #585 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Jephthah mean, and where does it come from?
- Jephthah is listed as a hero of faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews, though his story serves as a complex theological narrative regarding the binding nature of vows and the moral ambiguity of the Judg… Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What are other forms of the name Jephthah?
- In the etymology graph, Jeptha, Yiftach and Jephtha are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jephthah?
- In Swahili /ʄephθɑh/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jephthah a male or female name?
- Jephthah 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 Jephthah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Jephthah in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jephthah.
- How common is the name Jephthah?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 9 people named Jephthah in 2025, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jephthahThe 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, “Jephthah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.