Jeferson — #5550 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Jeferson

The Social Security Administration has registered 413 babies named Jeferson between 1997 and 2024, spanning 28 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jeferson currently holds the #5550 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 41 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jeferson performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 184 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Jeferson shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Virginia, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Jeferson in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jeferson in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 413 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.