Masculine dossier · first seen 1880

Jeff

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Jeff
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 99.5% from peak

Peak era

1961

Peak rank proxy

9,462

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1880Peak 19612024

Peak year

1961

Decline from peak

99.5%

2024

All-time

120,212

Jeff once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1961, when 9,462 boys were named Jeff.

In 2024, only 43 boys were given the name.

Down 99.5% from its peak.

All told, about 120,212 Americans have been named Jeff and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.5% from peak

19619,462 boys named Jeff

202443 boys named Jeff

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