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Jeoffrey vs Jeovanni

American parents have registered 533 Jeovannis since 1880, against 244 Jeoffreys. Jeovanni is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeoffrey against Jeovanni, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeoffrey Jeovanni

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 62 years in which either name was published, Jeoffrey for 31 years and Jeovanni for 31 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Jeoffrey Jeovanni
Total US births 244533
Most in one year 1429
Babies in 2025 under 57
Estimated living today 210530
Median age today 4416
Peak year 19822008
Best rank 3,108th boys3,646th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked9,714th
First recorded 19481989
Girls / boys 0 / 2440 / 533

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 Jeoffreys alive today are over 44; half the Jeovannis are over 16. That is 28 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: Jeoffrey and Jeovanni.