Jeffrey is a variant of Geoffrey, a French name of Old German origin. It is composed of ‘guda’ for ‘God’ and ‘fridu’ for ‘peace’, thus meaning ‘God’s peace’.
Jeffrey is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Jeffrey isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Jeffrey ranks 306. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 6 were named Jeffrey. In total, there are currently 972,520 people – children, adults and seniors – named Jeffrey living in the United States, which is approximately 0.29 % of the entire population.
Who would have thought it? After many years of not appearing at all in the SmartGenius statistics, Jeffrey reached its highest rank ever in the year 1966 at #9. In other words: 30,288 newborn boys were named Jeffrey that year. Since then, it has been considered to be a universally popular name, chosen by a large number of happy parents every year. Although the times of its highest popularity are now many decades ago, Jeffrey is still going strong and has not been forgotten yet. We can only wait and see if there will be a new surprise in store and if Jeffrey will be able to top its all-time best ranking ever again.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jeffrey was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Jeffrey ranked 431 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby boys a total of 677 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Jeffrey will remain a universally popular name.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Jeffrey is one of them. However, Jeffrey is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Wisconsin seem to particularly fancy this name – the 31,981 men called Jeffrey who live here are 0,969% of all male residents and push their name up to #17 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Wisconsin. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 972,520 people with the name Jeffrey. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Jeffrey on position 29 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With seven letters, the name Jeffrey has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jeffrey and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jeffrey, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Fox
Fox
Rocket
Elephant
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jeffrey sounds like this:
