Jeffrey
Jeffrey is ranked 520th among boys in 2024 (587 births). Its best rank was 9th, in 1966.
- Rank in 2024
- #520down 35 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5870.03% of boys
- Peak year
- 196233,536 births
- Best rank
- #9in 1966
- Since 1885
- 982,547people given the name
The story in the numbers
979,049 boys have been named Jeffrey in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 33,536 births — 1.6% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 587 births in 2024, against 33,536 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 1960s alone account for 31%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 55 of them in the top 100 and 5 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,498 girls have also been given it, 0.36% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jeffrey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 147 | |
| 1920s | 263 | |
| 1930s | 903 | |
| 1940s | 34,342 | |
| 1950s | 184,663 | |
| 1960s | 302,013 | |
| 1970s | 202,861 | |
| 1980s | 144,798 | |
| 1990s | 66,987 | |
| 2000s | 25,918 | |
| 2010s | 12,741 | |
| 2020s | 3,408 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Jeffrey was the 10th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1962 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Jeffrey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jefferypeak 1962
- Kurtpeak 1964
- Scottpeak 1971
- Timothypeak 1959
- Craigpeak 1960
- Kirtpeak 1962
- Jeffereypeak 1969
- Robbypeak 1964
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.