Last Name JEFFREY

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Meaning	The son of Geoffrey. There is a number of forms of this name that gives an idea of the enormous popularity of this now old-fashioned first name in the 13th and 14th centuries. Corrupted from Geoffrey or Godfrey, German, from 'God' and 'fried,' God's peace, or from 'Gau' and 'fried,' joyful peace. This name was borne by the chief of the royal house of Plantagenet.

Origin	English, Scottish, Irish

Rank	3,043 (2000 US census)	3,006 (1990 US census)

Count	10,925 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

79.11%, or 8643 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
15.81%, or 1727 total occurrences, as black,
0.63%, or 69 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.45%, or 49 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.82%, or 199 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.18%, or 238 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Scottish surnames

Scottish last names divide themselves into two classes: Highland and Lowland.
In very few instances the names were considered before the eleventh century. They became significantly better known only since the thirteen century.
Just like English and other last n...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...