Joffre
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Joffre has been given to 193 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1917, with 37 recorded.
Babies named Joffre, 2005
1 in 769,000
Joffre 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Joffre?
Joffre had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 399,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Joffre sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Joffre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Joffres were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Joffre was born before 1918 — so the typical Joffre is around 107 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 59.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 62
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 59.6% of all recorded uses (115).
Is Joffre 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 1917 (37)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 63.1% average annual change
Spellings of Joffre
Joffre is not the most common spelling — Jeffrey is, with 98.3% against Joffre's 0.02%.
Where Joffre is used
Across 1910–2025, Joffre was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 671,682 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Louisiana1 in —
- 2Massachusetts1 in —
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. Joffre has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Joffre around the world
Where Joffre 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.
- France1914–1990#2,908in 1990
- South Australia1949–1966#536in 1966
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Joffre by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Joffre
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Joffre
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.