Jefferson
2025 SSA
About Jefferson
The name of the third U.S. President sounds, like Harrison and Jackson, more modern and stylish now than its root name. Used as a first name long before our surname-crazed era, Jefferson was most famously used as a first name by the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, which may justifiably make you not want to use it. Jefferson is the middle name of another Prez, William Clinton.
Fictional Jeffersons include Jefferson Bricks in Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit and Jefferson Almond in Henry James' Washington Square, the title character in the Frank Capra classic film "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," plus others--for better and for worse-- in "Married With Children," "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Kit Kittridge: An American Girl."
Admittedly, nickname Jeff does sound a bit dated.
Pronounced JEF-ur-sun.
As of October 2026, Jefferson ranked #831 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #253 in 1891.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #609 | 439 | 228.5 |
| 2015 | #672 | 378 | 197.2 |
| 2016 | #620 | 432 | 227.6 |
| 2017 | #698 | 353 | 190.7 |
| 2018 | #681 | 364 | 200.4 |
| 2019 | #739 | 326 | 181.7 |
| 2020 | #706 | 357 | 206.8 |
| 2021 | #724 | 357 | 204.1 |
| 2022 | #760 | 332 | 190.1 |
| 2023 | #762 | 339 | 198.2 |
| 2024 | #711 | 374 | 217.1 |
| 2025 | #831 | 298 | 174.5 |
World rankings
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Jefferson on lists
Famous Jeffersons
- Jefferson Finis Davis
President of the Confederate States of America
- Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III
U.S. Senator; 84th Attorney General
- Jefferson Bryan Davis
American actor/comedian
- Jefferson Charles Rosemund Jr. aka Chuck Nutt
American rapper
- (Lewis) Jefferson Mays
American actor
- Jefferson Texas "Tex" Hammond (b. 2007)
son of actress Grey DeLisle and musician Murry Hammond
- William Jefferson Clinton
42nd President of the U.S.
- Li Jefferson Clayton
daughter of American journalist Laura Ling
- Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the United States
Jefferson in pop culture
- Jefferson Airplane
American rock band
- Jefferson D'Arcy
Marcy's husband on TV's "Married...with Children"
- Jefferson/The Mad Hatter
character on TV's "Once Upon a Time"
- Jefferson Howard
character from the “Spoon River Anthology”
- Jefferson "Jake" Briggs
main character in film "She's Having a Baby"
- Jefferson "Jax" Jackson aka Firestorm
character on TV's "The Flash" and "Legends of Tomorrow"
- Jefferson Smith
character in the webcomic "Riverside Extras" by Miri Chamberlain
- Jefferson Davis Slater
character in Lois Lenski's "Strawberry Girl"