girls:
1.3k births since 1927
#4453 (22nd percentile)
boys:
230.3k births since 1894
#167 (96th percentile)
overall:
231.5k births since 1894
#343 (96th percentile)
The name Jeffery is the #343 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 231,545 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 95.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #167 (96.4% percentile) for all time with 230,276 births since 1894. For girls, it ranks #4,453 (22.1% percentile) for all time with 1,269 births since 1927.
Jeffery first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for boys and 1927 for girls). Birth data for Jeffery is available in 116 out of the 130 years between 1894 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 52 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jeffery has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jeffery reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 93.6% percentile (ranked #42) with 4,345 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 4,415 births per million (ranked 93.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1966, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jeffery ranks #763 for boys (16.3% percentile) with 84 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jeffery reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #725) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeffery".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jeffery", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 25 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jeffrey" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jeffrey..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jeffery. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.1% confident that Jeffery is pronounced as JEH-fer-ee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-free, at 11.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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