Meaning not yet researched.
Jeffry: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #316 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #316 in 1956; #5,980 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jeffry in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,980 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #316.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Jeffry: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #316 in 1956 · most boys in one year: 553 (1957).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Jeffry, making it the 5,980th most common boys’ name of the year, up 644 places from #6,624 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 13 boys named Jeffry in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #316, reached in 1956. The most boys given the name in a single year was 553, in 1957. For comparison, it was #3,053 in 2015 and #453 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jeffry in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 6 babies. In all, 15,410 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 4,461 babies named Jeffry.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 218 US boys were named Jeffry; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jeffrey (983,099 babies since 1880) and Jeffery (231,818 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jefri and Jeffries are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jefri (30), Jeffries (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jeffry in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 15 | #5,980 |
| 2024 | — | — | 13 | #6,624 |
| 2023 | — | — | 24 | #4,397 |
| 2022 | — | — | 16 | #5,727 |
| 2021 | — | — | 19 | #5,007 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,777 |
| 2019 | — | — | 32 | #3,526 |
| 2018 | — | — | 22 | #4,531 |
| 2017 | — | — | 24 | #4,270 |
| 2016 | — | — | 33 | #3,394 |
| 2015 | — | — | 38 | #3,053 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,121 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,153 |
| 2012 | — | — | 37 | #3,079 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,608 |
| 2010 | — | — | 43 | #2,806 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,469 |
| 2008 | — | — | 64 | #2,134 |
| 2007 | — | — | 73 | #1,934 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,268 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,282 |
| 2004 | — | — | 49 | #2,328 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,949 |
| 2002 | — | — | 68 | #1,714 |
| 2001 | — | — | 57 | #1,921 |
| 2000 | — | — | 61 | #1,790 |
| 1999 | — | — | 56 | #1,788 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,730 |
| 1997 | — | — | 67 | #1,543 |
| 1996 | — | — | 69 | #1,469 |
| 1995 | — | — | 89 | #1,234 |
| 1994 | — | — | 76 | #1,342 |
| 1993 | — | — | 96 | #1,151 |
| 1992 | — | — | 105 | #1,070 |
| 1991 | — | — | 117 | #992 |
| 1990 | — | — | 122 | #935 |
| 1989 | — | — | 103 | #1,013 |
| 1988 | — | — | 134 | #818 |
| 1987 | — | — | 124 | #841 |
| 1986 | — | — | 116 | #841 |
| 1985 | — | — | 128 | #785 |
| 1984 | — | — | 122 | #788 |
| 1983 | — | — | 151 | #697 |
| 1982 | — | — | 140 | #744 |
| 1981 | — | — | 167 | #666 |
| 1980 | — | — | 196 | #623 |
| 1979 | — | — | 151 | #697 |
| 1978 | — | — | 182 | #620 |
| 1977 | — | — | 213 | #574 |
| 1976 | — | — | 195 | #585 |
| 1975 | — | — | 241 | #517 |
| 1974 | — | — | 226 | #529 |
| 1973 | — | — | 197 | #568 |
| 1972 | — | — | 223 | #533 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,831 | 291 | #473 |
| 1970 | — | — | 314 | #458 |
| 1969 | — | — | 382 | #408 |
| 1968 | — | — | 361 | #406 |
| 1967 | — | — | 398 | #374 |
| 1966 | — | — | 420 | #370 |
| 1965 | — | — | 381 | #404 |
| 1964 | — | — | 420 | #386 |
| 1963 | — | — | 452 | #375 |
| 1962 | 5 | #6,970 | 475 | #368 |
| 1961 | — | — | 494 | #358 |
| 1960 | — | — | 528 | #339 |
| 1959 | — | — | 542 | #332 |
| 1958 | — | — | 551 | #328 |
| 1957 | — | — | 553 | #327 |
| 1956 | — | — | 553 | #316 |
| 1955 | — | — | 518 | #325 |
| 1954 | — | — | 499 | #326 |
| 1953 | — | — | 426 | #338 |
| 1952 | — | — | 329 | #377 |
| 1951 | — | — | 278 | #409 |
| 1950 | — | — | 212 | #453 |
| 1949 | — | — | 194 | #474 |
| 1948 | — | — | 140 | #566 |
| 1947 | — | — | 168 | #523 |
| 1946 | — | — | 131 | #561 |
| 1945 | — | — | 89 | #643 |
| 1944 | — | — | 86 | #670 |
| 1943 | — | — | 79 | #727 |
| 1942 | — | — | 84 | #703 |
| 1941 | — | — | 45 | #956 |
| 1940 | — | — | 37 | #1,080 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,758 |
| 1938 | — | — | 9 | #2,556 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,783 |
| 1936 | — | — | 6 | #3,344 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,143 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,029 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,484 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,942 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).