Jeffery
Jeffery is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 150 births. Its best rank was 42nd, in 1966.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1500.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19629,281 births
- Best rank
- #42in 1966
- Since 1894
- 231,703people given the name
The story in the numbers
230,434 boys have been named Jeffery in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 9,281 births — 0.45% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 150 births in 2024, against 9,281 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 35%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,269 girls have also been given it, 0.55% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jeffery | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 13 | |
| 1910s | 129 | |
| 1920s | 216 | |
| 1930s | 295 | |
| 1940s | 4,754 | |
| 1950s | 45,878 | |
| 1960s | 79,529 | |
| 1970s | 44,566 | |
| 1980s | 29,575 | |
| 1990s | 14,668 | |
| 2000s | 6,486 | |
| 2010s | 3,446 | |
| 2020s | 874 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Jeffery was the 45th 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 Jeffery
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jeffreypeak 1962
- Kurtpeak 1964
- Kirkpeak 1962
- Kirtpeak 1962
- Dirkpeak 1954
- Jefforypeak 1967
- Scotpeak 1970
- Scottpeak 1971
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.