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Boy's name · #831 in the US (2025) · Vintage
Jefferson is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1891, when it ranked #253. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 24,000 boys since 1880, ranked #831 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 24 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#130 in Ecuador (2025) · #439 in Mexico (2024) · #2,095 in Canada (2025) · #2,580 in France (2025) · #14,570 in Italy (2023) · #4,002 in England & Wales (2022) · #1,434 in Austria (2019) · #701 in Ireland (2009) · #1,343 in Belgium (2008) · #394 in Puerto Rico (2001).
It is also an American family name — about 55,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 292 notable people named Jefferson:
Sports figures appear 2.19× more often than among typical names — e.g. Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer (born 1984).
Similar names: Turner · Jeffery · Nelson · Anderson · Iverson · Milton
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