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Jefferson

Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛfəsən/

Rank in 2024
#710
Born in 2024
374
Peak year
2009 · #589
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 374 boys were named Jefferson, about 1 in every 4,586.
  • It peaked in 2009 with 444 babies, ranked #589.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 24,141 boys have been named Jefferson since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Jefferson per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,485 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Silent: 1,740 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 3,243 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,366 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,071 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,101 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,465 babies, 0.21 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Jeffrey +‎ -son. The placenames in the United States are named for Thomas Jefferson.

  • (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈd͡ʒɛfəsən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Jefferson, CC BY-SA 4.0.