Jeffery

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jeffery is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Geoffrey.

rarermore common
  • CACanada1 in 422◐
  • IEIreland1 in 431
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 439

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈740K ●

across 5 countries

#201 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
595 ●

11M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 453 ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

JeffreyLatin · English●8.8M records
ג'פריHebrew · Hebrew●5K records
เจฟเฟอรThai · Thai●1 records
ҶеффриCyrillic · Tajik●0 records
제프리Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jeffrey in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 16 more, Jeffry in CR Costa Rica, PE Peru and ג'פרי in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Geoffrey.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jeffery is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#41734,8269.2M rec.1 in 453735KJeffrey595
GB United Kingdom#75471,277470K rec.—3Jeffrey218
PH Philippines#45253,070225K rec.——Jeffrey169
AU Australia#101198,931173K rec.—89Jeffrey240
CA Canada#53197,395192K rec.—3Jeffrey252
IT Italy#17254,32056K rec.—8Jeffrey85
DE Germany#47735,64935K rec.—1Jeffrey164
IE Ireland#5621,62723K rec.——Jeffrey83
RU Russia#90421,57923K rec.——Jeffrey56
CN China—21,53822K rec.——Jeffrey94
EG Egypt#31117,25717K rec.——Jeffrey29
MY Malaysia#5998,51619K rec.——Jeffery107

Roughly 735K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 453). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.8M81%
  • 170K8%
  • Spanish79K3%
  • German14K1%
  • French13K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,843,33981%
170,0918%
Spanish78,6253%
German13,5451%
French12,6241%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jeffery is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name4.1K records spelled Jeffery2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Jëffëry

  • Polish given name1.7K records spelled Jeffery35 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Jeffrey, Geoffrey, Джеффри, Jeffry, Geofrey

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Jeffery is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, variant of Jeffrey.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02.5K5K7.5K10K1900195020009.3K · 1962

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Jeffery in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1894–2025
Yearrecords
18945
19075
19098
19107
191215
191315
191416
191513
191617
191717
191815
191914
192010
192113
192223
192318
192425
192529
192623
192729
192825
192921
193029
193116
193222
193327
193427
193525
193634
193722
193840
193953
1940128
1941204
1942281
1943313
1944336
1945352
1946552
1947744
1948795
19491,049
19501,216
19511,631
19522,183
19533,042
19543,935
19555,466
19566,569
19577,508
19586,842
19597,487
19607,658
19618,923
19629,282
19638,486
19648,360
19657,734
19667,904
19677,226
19687,223
19696,738
19706,701
19716,100
19725,063
19734,407
19744,363
19753,903
19763,564
19773,564
19783,543
19793,357
19803,324
19813,334
19823,311
19833,154
19843,025
19852,947
19862,769
19872,645
19882,584
19892,478
19902,321
19912,121
19921,822
19931,626
19941,416
19951,273
19961,119
19971,080
1998965
1999924
2000837
2001778
2002734
2003697
2004623
2005607
2006643
2007556
2008533
2009479
2010447
2011409
2012373
2013397
2014388
2015305
2016314
2017312
2018259
2019244
2020215
2021184
2022173
2023153
2024151
2025110

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 118 years between 1894–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Jeffery Amherst, b. 1717John Steinbeck, b. 1902Tom Cole, b. 1949Jeffery Deaver, b. 1950Jeff Koons, b. 1955Jeff Richmond, b. 1961Jeff Probst, b. 1961Jeff Garlin, b. 1962Jeffery Williams, b. 1991Smokepurpp, b. 1997
  • Jeffery Amherstb. 1717GBBritish Army officer (1717–1797)
  • John Steinbeckb. 1902USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer (1902–1968)
  • Tom Coleb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
  • Jeffery Deaverb. 1950USAmerican novelist, journalist, lawyer
  • Jeff Koonsb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican sculptor and painter (born 1955)
  • Jeff Richmondb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer, television actor and producer
  • Jeff Probstb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican television host
  • Jeff Garlinb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican comedian and actor
  • Jeffery Williamsb. 1991USAmerican rapper and singer
  • Smokepurppb. 1997USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper (born 1997)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 67 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Jeffery
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020152K#366
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.8K#3,638
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.4K#3,672
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009K#3,611
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020282#366
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025110—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—92#67,365
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—85#8,792
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—69#10,993
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)196364#96
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—52#43,688
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—52#43,157

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 501 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jeffery?
We estimate roughly 740 thousand people bear Jeffery (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Jeffery have the most bearers?
We estimate about 735 thousand people bear Jeffery in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jeffrey.
How common is Jeffery compared with other names?
In the United States, Jeffery is the 41st most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Jeffery a male or female name?
Jeffery is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jeffery mean?
Recorded meaning: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Geoffrey.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jeffery” — the 41st most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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