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The name Jeff is of English origin, and is a variation of Jeffrey. The table below indicates the number of times the name Jeff has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jeff**
Use of the Name Jeff for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
117,965	101,615	6,020	1,100	494	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Jeff has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Jeff last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 2002, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jeff**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	188	66
1881	190	61
1882	166	81
1883	243	44
1884	185	74
1885	200	63
1886	210	63
1887	180	70
1888	162	93
1889	189	70
1890	177	77
1891	167	77
1892	222	62
1893	167	87
1894	210	64
1895	215	65
1896	231	62
1897	220	59
1898	228	60
1899	242	48
1900	246	69
1901	258	45
1902	276	47
1903	273	46
1904	219	71
1905	248	62
1906	259	59
1907	242	73
1908	263	65
1909	271	68
1910	268	83
1911	309	76
1912	321	134
1913	345	143
1914	369	164
1915	396	184
1916	408	186
1917	421	180
1918	417	198
1919	435	185
1920	409	208
1921	484	162
1922	416	209
1923	421	206
1924	446	186
1925	439	186
1926	481	157
1927	440	193
1928	450	178
1929	451	174
1930	442	177
1931	455	154
1932	452	157
1933	472	141
1934	531	122
1935	482	138
1936	504	127
1937	454	153
1938	420	184
1939	443	167
1940	340	278
1941	302	360
1942	293	427
1943	279	476
1944	275	468
1945	247	540
1946	219	766
1947	199	1,007
1948	212	891
1949	245	689
1950	290	539
1951	287	562
1952	266	663
1953	231	849
1954	223	972
1955	182	1,478
1956	146	2,217
1957	97	4,083
1958	67	5,810
1959	52	7,714
1960	49	8,491
1961	49	9,454
1962	44	9,426
1963	48	8,089
1964	52	6,931
1965	62	5,408
1966	72	4,384
1967	88	3,595
1968	90	3,287
1969	106	2,974
1970	116	2,880
1971	140	2,158
1972	167	1,540
1973	190	1,192
1974	219	971
1975	234	881
1976	262	744
1977	276	702
1978	294	634
1979	329	552
1980	339	542
1981	389	433
1982	394	424
1983	412	389
1984	441	364
1985	441	372
1986	467	342
1987	514	303
1988	513	322
1989	580	284
1990	644	249
1991	643	254
1992	696	221
1993	716	208
1994	714	213
1995	879	154
1996	881	155
1997	978	133
1998
1999	909	164
2000	932	163
2001	907	171
2002	980	160
Totals:		117,965		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Jeff as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Jeff appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 122 times during the last 125 years.

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