Geffen
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Geffen has been given to 43 babies in the U.S. since 1997. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% boys, 28% girls all-time.
Babies named Geffen, 2024
1 in 478,000
Geffen over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Geffen over time
In 2024, Geffen went to 46% girls and 54% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Geffen?
Geffen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 246,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Geffen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Geffen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Geffens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Geffen was born before 2021 — so the typical Geffen is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 61.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 83.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 31
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 61.3% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Geffen rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (7)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Geffen
Geffen is not the most common spelling — Efren is, with 67.8% against Geffen's 0.26%.
Geffen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Geffen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Geffen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.