as a Last Name
- 10,349
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Jeffrey
Meaning & Origins
English: from a Norman personal name that appears in Middle English as Geffrey and in Old French as Je(u)froi. Some authorities regard this as no more than a palatalized form of Godfrey, but early forms such as Galfridus and Gaufridus point to a first element from Germanic gala ‘to sing’ or gawi ‘region’, ‘territory’. It is possible that several originally distinct names have fallen together in the same form.
| 3,004th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,349
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Jeffrey per capita
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