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Jeffrey
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛfɹi/
Rank in 2024
#519
Born in 2024
587
Peak year
1962 · #10
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 587 boys were named Jeffrey, about 1 in every 2,922.
- It peaked in 1962 with 33,536 babies, ranked #10.
- It first shows up in the records in 1885.
- 979,049 boys 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.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.6Silent1928–45
- 9.7Boomers1946–64
- 13.4Gen X1965–80
- 6.0Millennials1981–96
- 1.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 355 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 12,592 babies, 0.61 per 1,000. Boomers: 364,192 babies, 9.70 per 1,000. Gen X: 364,437 babies, 13.39 per 1,000. Millennials: 182,814 babies, 6.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 43,077 babies, 1.37 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 11,577 babies, 0.53 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.