first name
JEFF
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 208,615 people named Jeff, 88.3% reported their origin as White, 3.4% as Black and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are male (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jeff peaked in 1961, when 9,474 babies got the name.
At least 120,502 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jeff by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #121. The largest share of babies named Jeff, 58.8%, were born during the baby boom (1946–1964).
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jeff is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jeff has been most common in Oregon (2×), Iowa (2×), and Washington (2×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.24×).
114,611 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Jeff
Spelled almost the same
3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jeff, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jeff ranks #29,761 of 156,621, with 844 people. See Jeff as a last name
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