Jeffrey

What Jeffrey means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #552 vs #1,705 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jeffrey?

US: Falling: down from #290 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1327 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1966, when 30,200 boys got the name (#9 that year). First in the US records in 1885.

How common

• About 1 in 3,140 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,129 baby boys in England and Wales 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 MO (0.65 per 1,000 boys), KY (0.63 per 1,000 boys), AL (0.6 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Jeffrey is #552 in the US and #1705 in England & Wales (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 Jeffrey 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

• Jeffry15 US
• Jefry6 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 Jeffrey

Boys

• Robert#92“shining glory”^*
• Richard#234“king, ruler + hard, brave”^*
• Frank#513Form of Francis, meaning “Frankish (man); a Frank”^*
• Raymond#394“advice + protection”^*
• Ronald#637“advice + power”^*
• Eric#273Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1970, with 23,571 babies; 1,256 in 2025

For a sister

• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*
• Alicia#460Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 7,820 babies; 672 in 2025
• Alison#476“of noble kind”^*
• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Allison#103Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Alyssa#453“a plant of the genus Alyssum”^*

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