According to the Egyptologists Kim Ryholt, Jürgen Beckerath, and Darell Baker, he was the third king of the Eighth Dynasty.

[1][2][3] As a king of the Eighth Dynasty, Neferkare II's capital would have been Memphis.

The Abydos king list was redacted some 900 years after the First intermediate period during the reign of Seti I.

Another king list of the Ramesside era, the Turin canon has a large lacuna affecting many kings of the Eighth Dynasty and the duration of Neferkare II's reign, which would have been reported on the document, is lost.

[2] Jürgen Beckerath tentatively identified Neferkare II with the prenomen Wadjkare ("Flourishing is the Ka of Ra"), which is attested on a graffito from the Wadi Hammamat contemporary with First Intermediate Period.