Cephas
Recorded 1898–2025 · United States
Cephas was most popular in 1921, when 23 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,243 that year. In 2025 it ranked #10,631, with 19 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 930 people named Cephas.
Cephas over time
How old is the name Cephas?
Cephas first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1898, which makes it about 127 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 95 of the 128 years since.
How many people are named Cephas?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 930 American births named Cephas between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 473 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Cephas in 2025?
19 American babies were named Cephas in 2025, ranking #10,631 that year.
Is Cephas getting more or less popular?
Cephas is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 13 births a year across 2021–2025 against 10 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Cephas a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Cephas is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 930 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Cephas?
Roughly 473 Americans named Cephas are alive today — 51% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 37 years old, and half are between 11 and 66. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org