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Jeffry

#5,977 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly peace, sanctuary, through Jeffrey

Jeffry has been given to 15,410 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #5,977 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1956, with 553 recorded.

Babies named Jeffry, 2025

1 in 221,000

Jeffry over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jeffry: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly peace, sanctuary, through Jeffrey

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jeffry means

Jeffry belongs to the name family reached through Jeffry → Jeffrey → Geoffrey. Its meaning is “peace, sanctuary”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jeffry is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jeffrey and Geoffrey.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,400 boys were recorded with the name Jeffry between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 553 in 1956; its best national rank was #316 in 1956.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,773 in 2020 to #5,977 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,052 in 2015 to #5,977 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Jeffry between 1962 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1962; its best national rank was #6,969 in 1962.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jeffry?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,977
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jeffry sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jeffry. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jeffrys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jeffry was born before 1964 — so the typical Jeffry is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
14,288
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1950s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (4,461).

Is Jeffry 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
+642
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,204
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,925
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.7%
Peak was 1956 (553)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#316
1956

Spellings of Jeffry

Jeffry is not the most common spelling — Jeffrey is, with 49.7% against Jeffry's 0.78%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jeffry is used

Across 1910–2025, Jeffry was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 14,285 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 100,000).

118 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 5,556
  2. 2Iowa1 in 6,250
  3. 3Oregon1 in 7,143
  4. 4Washington1 in 7,692
  5. 5Indiana1 in 8,333
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 8,333
  7. 7Nebraska1 in 8,333
  8. 8Michigan1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jeffry has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jeffry around the world

Where Jeffry ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1987–2018
    #5,986
    in 2018
  • Canada
    1992–2005
    #2,048
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1945–1977
    #455
    in 1977

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jeffry

People whose public names include Jeffry, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jeffry by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,977
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,204
Best rank ever
#316
1956
Peak year
1956
553 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,400
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,969
1962
Peak year
1962
5 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jeffry

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jeffry

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jeffry, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jeffry

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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