girls:
3.5k births since 1941
#2921 (49th percentile)
boys:
978.4k births since 1885
#29 (99th percentile)
overall:
981.9k births since 1885
#45 (99th percentile)
The name Jeffrey is the #45 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 981,929 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 99.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #29 (99.4% percentile) for all time with 978,431 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #2,921 (48.9% percentile) for all time with 3,498 births since 1941.
Jeffrey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1941 for girls). Birth data for Jeffrey is available in 115 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (115 years for boys and 65 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 Jeffrey has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jeffrey reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 98.7% percentile (ranked #9) with 16,613 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 16,613 births per million (ranked 98.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1970, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jeffrey ranks #438 for boys (52.0% percentile) with 337 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jeffrey reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 17.5% percentile (ranked #638) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 76 births per million (ranked 17.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jeffrey".
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