Jeffery

Where Jeffery comes from

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

  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1717
    Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst born
    British Army officer
  2. 1894
    First appearance
    #1,074 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1950
    Jeffery Deaver born
    American novelist, journalist, lawyer
  4. 1966
    Peak, #42
    7,904 babies named Jeffery — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #70.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Jeffrey.
Namesakes
  • Jeffery Deaver · American novelist, journalist, lawyer, born 1950
  • Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst · British Army officer, 1717–1797
  • Jeffery Taylor · Swedish-American basketball player, born 1989
  • Jeffery Xiong · American chess player, born 2000
  • Jeffery Gibson · Bahamian hurdler, born 1990

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.