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Jeffren vs Jeffry

American parents have registered 15,410 Jeffrys since 1880, against 89 Jeffrens. Jeffry is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeffren against Jeffry, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeffren Jeffry

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

Jeffry has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Jeffren had 28 and Jeffry had 43.

Side by side

  Jeffren Jeffry
Total US births 8915,410
Most in one year 28553
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 9012,000
Median age today 1458
Peak year 20101956
Best rank 3,708th boys316th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked5,861st
First recorded 20101919
Girls / boys 0 / 8910 / 15,400

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 Jeffrys alive today are over 58; half the Jeffrens are over 14. That is 44 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: Jeffren and Jeffry.