Jeffery

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jeffery: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jeffery: Recorded since 1952, it reached #87 in 1958, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
44times a registrar ranked it
73years from first to last
#87highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2357
1997	#1761
1998	#2419
1999	#2097
2000	#3036
2001	#2587
2002	#2636
2003	#2470
2005	#2754
2006	#3385
2007	#4333
2008	#3158
2009	#2318
2011	#2892
2013	#2403
2014	#3362
2015	#2483
2016	#3478
2017	#3040
2020	#3848
2021	#4789
2022	#4789
2023	#4991
2024	#5119

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 10 of the 37 years from 1973 to 2009.

In 2009: #701 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #2318 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1952–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #89 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1952–1963
Highest recorded position: #87 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 1958 (recorded 1952–1963).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Jeffery appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 24 ranked years and 114 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1952.

Jeffery across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jeffery's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#268 (1973)	#268 (1973)	#701 (2009)	10 of 37	36 (1973–2009)	5 (1973)
England and Wales · Boys	#2357 (1996)	#1761 (1997)	#5119 (2024)	24 of 29	114 (1996–2024)	8 (2009)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#89 (1952)	#87 (1958)	#96 (1963)	10 of 12	668 (1952–1963)	77 (1961)

Jeffery by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jeffery in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	19	4 of 10	5
2000s	41	9 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	38	6 of 10	6
2020s	16	5 of 10	3

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Jeffery appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #87 in New South Wales, Australia in 1958.

Jeffery's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4991	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3040	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#3478	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2483	8	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2892	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#3385	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2097	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2357	4	High	Verified
1963	New South Wales, Australia	male	#96	64	Insufficient	Not yet available
1962	New South Wales, Australia	male	#98	61	Insufficient	Not yet available
1961	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	71	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	male	#87	75	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	male	#92	65	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	65	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	male	#98	57	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	67	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	male	#89	66	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#393	4	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	male	#339	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	male	#271	4	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	male	#330	3	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#333	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	male	#268	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1952 and 2024, ranked in 42 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #87, first reached in 1958.

It held a top-100 place in 10 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 77 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1961.

Its record falls into 16 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1973, and 44 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Jeffrey · #30, 73y
Jelani · #1664, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mervyn · #85, 37y
Majella · #78, 37y
Maxine · #97, 43y
Matilde · #76, 40y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Alistair · #87, 51y
Gloria · #86, 65y
Harold · #88, 50y
Kaye · #89, 20y

Jeffery was ranked #87 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1958. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Jeffery and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Jeffery without appearing here.

Jeffery moved ahead of

Tayla Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2318 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #2403 and #4685.
Kristoffer Compare
In 2008 they stood at #4333 and #4333 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2009 that had become #2318 and #4527.
Brooke Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2318 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2892 and #4647.
Shannon Compare
In 2007 they stood at #4333 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #3158 and #4432.

Moved ahead of Jeffery

Rune Compare
In 2019 they stood at #3040 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3848 and #2228.
Theodor Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2318 and #2544 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2011 that had become #2892 and #1522.
Madison Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3362 and #4632 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #3449.
Aria Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3040 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #4789 and #3451.

Moved the opposite way to Jeffery

Aaron Compare
Between 1973 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Jeffery went from #268 to #701 while Aaron went from #157 to #16.
Adam Compare
Between 1973 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Jeffery went from #268 to #701 while Adam went from #143 to #7.
Alexander Compare
Between 1973 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Jeffery went from #268 to #701 while Alexander went from #145 to #50.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1973 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Jeffery went from #268 to #701 while Benjamin went from #215 to #68.

Moved the same way as Jeffery

Adrian Compare
Between 1973 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Jeffery went from #268 to #701 and Adrian from #43 to #114.
Arthur Compare
Between 1973 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Jeffery went from #268 to #701 and Arthur from #145 to #220.
Denis Compare
Between 1973 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Jeffery went from #268 to #701 and Denis from #42 to #159.
Edward Compare
Between 1973 and 2009 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Jeffery went from #268 to #701 and Edward from #29 to #104.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1952 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #87 in New South Wales, Australia in 1958. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Jeffery

Jeffery at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jeffery across 3 official records

Jeffery by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Jeffery appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Jeffery at a glance

Jeffery across 3 official records

Jeffery by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Jeffery appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Jeffery

Jeffery and the names beside it

Jeffery moved ahead of

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