first name
JEFFREY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 735,428 people named Jeffrey, 86.9% reported their origin as White, 4.5% as Black and 3.7% 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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Jeffrey peaked in 1962, when 33,615 babies got the name.
At least 983,099 babies have been given the name since 1885. 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.
Jeffrey by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #12. The largest share of babies named Jeffrey, 37.2%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
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 Jeffrey is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jeffrey has been most common in Wisconsin (1.6×), Delaware (1.6×), and New Hampshire (1.5×), and least common in Mississippi (0.44×).
979,475 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 Jeffrey
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jeffrey, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jeffrey ranks #3,451 of 156,621, with 10,103 people. See Jeffrey as a last name
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