Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Jeff” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jeff” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jeff” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jeff” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jeff” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jeff” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jeff” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jeff” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 66 0.000327569 66 -100%
1881 61 0.000316574 61 -100%
1882 81 0.000365634 81 -100%
1883 44 0.000202815 44 -100%
1884 74 0.00030395 74 -100%
1885 63 0.000261569 63 -100%
1886 63 0.000246753 63 -100%
1887 70 0.000282952 70 -100%
1888 93 0.000310544 93 -100%
1889 70 0.00024226 70 -100%
1890 77 0.000255474 77 -100%
1891 77 0.000268599 77 -100%
1892 62 0.000185421 62 -100%
1893 87 0.000267509 87 -100%
1894 64 0.000188963 64 -100%
1895 65 0.000185175 65 -100%
1896 62 0.000173434 62 -100%
1897 59 0.00017005 59 -100%
1898 60 0.000157292 60 -100%
1899 48 0.000141495 48 -100%
1900 69 0.000153245 69 -100%
1901 45 0.000130129 45 -100%
1902 47 0.000121531 47 -100%
1903 46 0.000120672 46 -100%
1904 71 0.000175967 71 -100%
1905 62 0.000146253 62 -100%
1906 59 0.000137705 59 -100%
1907 73 0.000156858 73 -100%
1908 65 0.00013302 65 -100%
1909 68 0.000133014 68 -100%
1910 83 0.000140509 83 -100%
1911 76 0.000117961 76 -100%
1912 134 0.000135619 134 -100%
1913 143 0.000125757 143 -100%
1914 165 0.000116497 165 -100%
1915 183 0.000099868 183 -100%
1916 186 0.000096153 186 -100%
1917 180 0.000089697 180 -100%
1918 198 0.000091198 198 -100%
1919 184 0.000087194 184 -100%
1920 207 0.000091486 207 -100%
1921 164 0.00007025 164 -100%
1922 206 0.000089989 206 -100%
1923 207 0.000089903 207 -100%
1924 186 0.000078098 186 -100%
1925 194 0.000083144 5 189 -95%
1926 159 0.000069254 159 -100%
1927 197 0.000084937 5 192 -95%
1928 177 0.000078286 177 -100%
1929 174 0.000079374 174 -100%
1930 177 0.000079612 177 -100%
1931 154 0.00007318 154 -100%
1932 157 0.000074362 157 -100%
1933 143 0.00007152 143 -100%
1934 122 0.000058744 122 -100%
1935 142 0.000067946 5 137 -93%
1936 128 0.00006161 128 -100%
1937 153 0.000071808 153 -100%
1938 187 0.000084517 187 -100%
1939 164 0.000074429 164 -100%
1940 279 0.000121163 279 -100%
1941 361 0.000148168 361 -100%
1942 424 0.000155208 424 -100%
1943 480 0.000170058 480 -100%
1944 470 0.000174716 470 -100%
1945 538 0.000202796 538 -100%
1946 766 0.000239727 766 -100%
1947 1007 0.000279542 1007 -100%
1948 888 0.000257204 888 -100%
1949 696 0.000199726 696 -100%
1950 539 0.000153852 539 -100%
1951 567 0.00015392 567 -100%
1952 659 0.000173512 659 -100%
1953 847 0.000219792 847 -100%
1954 976 0.000245183 976 -100%
1955 1487 0.000370354 5 1482 -99%
1956 2224 0.000539408 5 2219 -100%
1957 4099 0.000975455 7 4092 -100%
1958 5825 0.00140908 15 5810 -99%
1959 7737 0.001860754 7 7730 -100%
1960 8531 0.002053775 20 8511 -100%
1961 9473 0.002286893 11 9462 -100%
1962 9441 0.002339561 17 9424 -100%
1963 8121 0.00205169 13 8108 -100%
1964 6946 0.001786704 14 6932 -100%
1965 5424 0.001496091 15 5409 -99%
1966 4398 0.001265373 11 4387 -99%
1967 3608 0.001062772 16 3592 -99%
1968 3293 0.000974718 14 3279 -99%
1969 2989 0.000860064 16 2973 -99%
1970 2890 0.000801328 9 2881 -99%
1971 2160 0.000629306 5 2155 -100%
1972 1545 0.00049157 5 1540 -99%
1973 1182 0.000391795 1182 -100%
1974 980 0.000322369 5 975 -99%
1975 883 0.000292443 883 -100%
1976 750 0.000247174 5 745 -99%
1977 707 0.000222572 6 701 -98%
1978 640 0.000201647 640 -100%
1979 551 0.000165615 551 -100%
1980 542 0.000157352 542 -100%
1981 434 0.000125456 434 -100%
1982 429 0.000122293 5 424 -98%
1983 395 0.000114052 5 390 -97%
1984 365 0.000104622 365 -100%
1985 379 0.000106189 6 373 -97%
1986 352 0.000098958 6 346 -97%
1987 306 0.000084868 306 -100%
1988 328 0.000088768 5 323 -97%
1989 283 0.000073613 283 -100%
1990 249 0.000062998 249 -100%
1991 254 0.000065207 254 -100%
1992 221 0.000057533 221 -100%
1993 209 0.000055434 209 -100%
1994 213 0.000057294 213 -100%
1995 154 0.000042052 154 -100%
1996 156 0.000042773 156 -100%
1997 134 0.000036958 134 -100%
1998 135 0.000036703 135 -100%
1999 165 0.000044669 165 -100%
2000 164 0.000043387 164 -100%
2001 171 0.000045681 171 -100%
2002 162 0.000043335 162 -100%
2003 156 0.000041028 156 -100%
2004 163 0.00004266 163 -100%
2005 130 0.000033812 130 -100%
2006 141 0.00003564 141 -100%
2007 161 0.000040273 161 -100%
2008 142 0.000036126 142 -100%
2009 128 0.000033506 128 -100%
2010 113 0.000030576 113 -100%
2011 90 0.000024605 90 -100%
2012 78 0.000021327 78 -100%
2013 79 0.00002167 79 -100%
2014 100 0.000026981 100 -100%
2015 72 0.000019455 72 -100%
2016 58 0.000015809 58 -100%
2017 59 0.000016498 59 -100%
2018 67 0.000019056 67 -100%
2019 53 0.00001527 53 -100%
2020 43 0.000012872 43 -100%
2021 56 0.000016529 56 -100%
2022 46 0.000013597 46 -100%
2023 35 0.00001057 35 -100%
2024 43 0.000012919 43 -100%

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