Jeffory
Masculine · “Peace”
Poets' Corner grew around a grave that was not there for poetry. Geoffrey Chaucer was buried in Westminster Abbey because he had been Clerk of the King's Works and held a tenancy nearby, and it was a century and a half before anybody moved him to a better tomb and started burying writers next to him.
How old is the name Jeffory?
Jeffory first appears in US birth records in 1943 — 82 years ago. The typical Jeffory alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 1,000 people named Jeffory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jeffory most popular?
Jeffory peaked in 1967, reaching #1003 nationally. See the whole 1967 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Gaufrid to Jeffory
The story of Jeffory
The corner is an accident that became an institution. Chaucer died in fourteen hundred and was given an ordinary burial in the transept; in the fifteen-fifties an admirer had a proper tomb built and his remains moved to it, and after that being buried near Chaucer became the thing to do. Spenser went in beside him and reportedly had poems and pens thrown into the grave by other writers. Then Dryden, Johnson, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy. A great many of the memorials commemorate people buried elsewhere, and several of the best English writers are not there at all. It began as a bureaucrat's grave in a convenient spot.
Meaningscholars disagree
Peace, plus something unsettled
The second element is the Germanic word for peace, and it is secure. The first is not: at least two and probably three separate names fell together in medieval French, and the candidates for the first half include words for territory, for a traveler and for a pledge. The unstressed vowel in this spelling is written with an o, which is the fourth option English has used.
How the name formed
- Gaufrid
- Geoffrey
- Jeffrey
- Jeffory
Related forms: Geoffroy · Goffredo
Pronouncing Jeffory
JEF-ree
Two syllables in speech and three on the page. The o in the middle is not sounded, which is why Jeffrey, Jeffery and Jeffory are all said identically and all appear in the records.
Nicknames for Jeffory
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1943
- Most boys named
- 196752 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1003reached in 1967
- Change vs 1997
- −28.6%5 in 2006, from 7
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jeffory in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Geoffroy in French — same name
- Goffredo in Italian — same name
Jefforys among us
people named Jeffory are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jeffory sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- The spoken name is completely established and never needs repeating.
- Jeff is short, plain and universally understood from childhood onward.
- The name is recognizable in French and Italian with small changes.
- Three spellings circulate and this is the rarest of them.
- The middle vowel is silent, so the spelling cannot be defended in speech.
- It is strongly dated to the middle of the last century in American records.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jefforys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Jeffory are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jeffory in 2025?
- Jeffory is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Jeffory will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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