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Jeffrey

Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛfɹi/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1970 · #922
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:587 in 2024 (#519)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Jeffrey in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1970 with 140 babies, ranked #922.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1941.
  • 3,498 girls have been named Jeffrey since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 41 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 883 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,558 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Millennials: 947 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 69 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Variant of Geoffrey.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, the usual U.S. spelling of Geoffrey. Popular in the latter half of the 20th century.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈd͡ʒɛfɹi/

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