Jeff
Jeff is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 43 births. Its best rank was 44th, in 1962.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 430.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19619,462 births
- Best rank
- #44in 1962
- Since 1880
- 120,212people given the name
The story in the numbers
120,212 boys have been named Jeff in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1961, with 9,462 births — 0.45% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 43 births in 2024, against 9,462 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1962, and the 1960s alone account for 52%. It has spent 122 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jeff | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 685 | |
| 1890s | 661 | |
| 1900s | 605 | |
| 1910s | 1,532 | |
| 1920s | 1,861 | |
| 1930s | 1,522 | |
| 1940s | 5,909 | |
| 1950s | 24,921 | |
| 1960s | 62,077 | |
| 1970s | 12,253 | |
| 1980s | 3,786 | |
| 1990s | 1,890 | |
| 2000s | 1,518 | |
| 2010s | 769 | |
| 2020s | 223 |
In 1961, its biggest year
Jeff was the 49th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1961 were Michael, David, John, James and Robert. See all of 1961.
Names that rose and fell with Jeff
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Timpeak 1960
- Dougpeak 1962
- Gregpeak 1961
- Todpeak 1962
- Robpeak 1963
- Timmypeak 1960
- Chrispeak 1961
- Bartpeak 1959
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.