boys:
23.8k births since 1880
#746 (84th percentile)
overall:
23.8k births since 1880
#1647 (79th percentile)
The name Jefferson is the #1,647 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 23,763 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #746 (83.7% percentile) for all time with 23,763 births since 1880.
Jefferson has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Jefferson reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 42.7% percentile (ranked #517) with 209 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 366 births per million (ranked 17.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jefferson ranks #596 for boys (34.6% percentile) with 185 births per million, which is 50.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jefferson".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jefferson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jefferson is pronounced as JEH-fer-suhn, which has 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH EH1 F ER0 S AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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