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Jefferey vs Jeffren

American parents have registered 3,973 Jeffereys since 1880, against 89 Jeffrens. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jefferey against Jeffren, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jefferey Jeffren

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 75 years in which either name was published, Jefferey for 71 years and Jeffren for 4 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Jefferey Jeffren
Total US births 3,97389
Most in one year 14128
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3,40090
Median age today 5214
Peak year 19692010
Best rank 665th boys3,708th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19432010
Girls / boys 0 / 3,9730 / 89

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jeffereys alive today are over 52; half the Jeffrens are over 14. That is 38 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jefferey and Jeffren.