AbstractBAFF, a vital B cell survival and differentiation factor, has three receptors: B‐cell maturation antigen (BCMA), transmembrane activator and CAML interactor (TACI) and BR3. Although B cells are greatly reduced in B6.Baff−/− (which harbour no BAFF) and B6.Br3−/− mice (which harbour supra‐normal levels of BAFF), the distributions of B cell subsets and relationships between Foxp3+ and CD4+ cells in these mice differ. Using a large panel of B6 congenic knockout and/or transgenic mice, we demonstrate that (1) supra‐normal levels of BAFF per se do not explain the phenotypic differences between B6.Baff−/− and B6.Br3−/− mice; (2) B cells are expanded in B6.Taci−/− mice, with preferential expansion of follicular (FO) B cells at the expense of CD19+CD21−/loCD23−/lo B cells but without the preferential expansion of Foxp3+ cells observed in B6 mice bearing a Baff transgene; (3) despite no expansion in total B cells, percentages of FO B cells and marginal zone B cells are higher and percentages of CD19+CD21−/loCD23−/lo B cells are lower in young B6.Bcma−/− mice, consistent with the inability of B6.Br3−/−.Taci−/− mice to recapitulate the B cell profile of B6.Baff−/− mice; and (4) percentages of Foxp3+ cells in B6.Br3−/−.Taci−/− mice are intermediate between those in B6.Br3−/− and B6.Taci−/− mice despite the B cell profile of B6.Br3−/−.Taci−/− mice strongly resembling that of B6.Br3−/− mice. Collectively, our findings point to a non‐redundant role for each of the BAFF receptors in determining the ultimate lymphocyte profile of the host. This may have clinically relevant ramifications in that the degree that a candidate therapeutic agent blocks engagement of any given individual BAFF receptor may affect its clinical utility.