Jeffrey
The boy's name Jeffrey has been in the national records since 1885, with 983,099 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 552nd. About 820,000 Jeffreys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jeffrey boys named Jeffrey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 983,099
- Estimated living today
- 820,000
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 10th
- Rank in 2025
- 552nd
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 3,498 / 979,601
How old the living Jeffreys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 983,099 babies given the name since 1885, about 820,000 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 20,000 of them are children and 167,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Variant of Geoffrey.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Jeffreys
- Jeffrey Epstein (1953–2019)American sex offender and financier
- Jeffrey Dahmer (1960–1994)American serial killer
- Jeffrey Sachs (born 1954)American economist
- Jeffrey C. Hall (born 1945)American geneticist and chronobiologist
- Jeffrey Wright (born 1965)American actor
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born 1966)American actor
- Jeffrey Archer (born 1940)English author and former politician
- Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born 1960)novelist, short story writer, academic
People named Jeffrey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jeffrey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jeffrey is most concentrated in Wisconsin (1.6×), Delaware (1.5×), Vermont (1.5×), New Hampshire (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular boys’ names the year Jeffrey peaked:
Jeffrey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand boys | Jeffrey | 2,826 | 49th |
| France boys | Jeffrey | 2,570 | 176th |
| Ireland boys | Jeffrey | 946 | 120th |
| England and Wales boys | Jeffrey | 738 | 698th |
| Belgium boys | Jeffrey | 661 | 117th |
| Scotland boys | Jeffrey | 222 | 129th |
| Poland boys | Jeffrey | 5 birth registrations | 595th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Jeffrey | 4 | 248th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jeffrey: rank by region
In 2016, Jeffrey was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Jeffrey | 630 | 8 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Jeffrey among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Jeffrey | 15,329 | 17,580 |
| Finland boys | Jeffrey | 36 | 65 |
| the Netherlands girls | Jeffrey | — | 35 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Jeffrey lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 441 men called Jeffrey were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Jeffrey | 53 | 0.053 | 1,258 |
| Palmas, Las | Jeffrey | 29 | 0.050 | 1,591 |
| Málaga | Jeffrey | 40 | 0.046 | 1,175 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Jeffrey | 19 | 0.036 | 2,136 |
| Balears, Illes | Jeffrey | 20 | 0.032 | 1,738 |
| Madrid | Jeffrey | 84 | 0.025 | 1,923 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Jeffrey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.