Jefferson

What Jefferson means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jefferson yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 298 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jefferson?

US: Falling: down from #672 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1891, when 40 boys got the name (#251 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,732 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in CT (0.45 per 1,000 boys), MD (0.39 per 1,000 boys), VA (0.35 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jefferson is #829 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jefferson were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jeferson17 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jefferson

Boys

• Ryder#132From a surname for “a rider, cavalryman, or knight”^*
• Ryland#703“rye + land”^*
• Cash#287Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #287 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Cohen#225Editor’s note Up from #336 in 2015 to #225 in 2025 in the US
• Sawyer#122“one who saws”^*
• Finnley#757Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1999, with 7 babies

For a sister

• Marley#322Editor’s note Down from #218 in 2015 to #322 in 2025 in the US
• Marlee#536Editor’s note Down from #455 in 2015 to #536 in 2025 in the US
• Hayden#437“hay + valley”^*
• Marleigh#975Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #975 vs #2,605 in 2025
• Harlow#309Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Harlow in 2025 were girls
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jefferson’s. Rank is US 2025.