Jefferey

Where Jefferey comes from

The dictionaries list Jefferey as a given name — a male given name, variant of Jeffrey — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1943
    First appearance
    #2,732 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1969
    Peak, #665
    141 babies named Jefferey — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,137.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name, variant of Jeffrey.
Namesakes

No widely known Jefferey turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.